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The mental activity or process of grasping with the intellect; apprehension by the mind; understanding.
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These books will fill, and well fill, certain stretches of life […] But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influences of abysmic Nature, or its affinities in literature or human society, and the soul resents the keenest mere intellection, they will not be sought for.
None of Mr. Knott's gestures could be called characteristic, unless perhaps that which consisted in the simultaneous obturation of the facial cavities, the thumbs in the mouth, the forefingers in the ears, the little fingers in the nostrils, the third fingers in the eyes and the second fingers, free in a crisis to promote intellection, laid along the temples.
The purpose of philosophy is to unite oneself with the objects of the intellect, and even at last with the One that is above all intellection.
A particular act of grasping by means of the intellect.
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Our senses, our instincts, our intellections are all instruments of adaptation.
The mental content of an act of grasping by means of the intellect, as a thought, idea, or conception.
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When Banerjee talks about the artist's thinking about the music, she is not referring to an intellection about the mechanics of technique.
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the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
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thinking always made him frown
she paused for thought