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The passive intellect (Latin: intellectus possibilis; also translated as potential intellect or material intellect), is a term used in philosophy alongside the notion of the active intellect in order to give an account of the operation of the intellect (nous), in accordance with the theory of hylomorphism, as most famously put forward by Aristotle.

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Passive intellect

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The passive intellect (Latin: intellectus possibilis; also translated as potential intellect or material intellect), is a term used in philosophy alongside...

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Intellect

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Aristotle first developed this with his distinction between the passive intellect and active intellect. In psychology and in neuroscience, the controversial Theory...

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Active intellect

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types of intellect or nous which he believed were both necessary in order to explain human thinking. What modern scholars call the "passive intellect" is material...

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Hylomorphism

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two types of intellect. These are traditionally called the "passive intellect" and the "active (or agent) intellect". The passive intellect is like clay;...

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Nous

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between intellect and sense perception. Aristotle's remarks on the concept of what came to be called the "active intellect" and "passive intellect" (along...

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Intelligible form

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the active and passive intellect, where the passive intellect receives the forms of things in order to be known, and the active intellect then turns possible...

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Knowledge Neuroscience and intelligence Outline of human intelligence Passive intellect Superintelligence Sapience Sharma, Radha R. (2008). Emotional Intelligence...

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Muhammad in Islam

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celestial intellects. Already in early Neo-Platonic commentaries on Aristotle, these intellects have been compared to light. Al-Fabari depicted the passive intellect...

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Outline of human intelligence

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giftedness Knowledge Mental event Mental operations Neurocognitive Passive intellect Sex and psychology Mackintosh, N. J. (2011). IQ and Human Intelligence...

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Idealism

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the so-called 'agent intellect', an intellect distinct from the 'passive intellect', the supposed focus of discussion up until this passage. This view...

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William of Ockham

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essence and existence, and opposes the Thomistic doctrine of active and passive intellect. His scepticism to which his ontological parsimony request leads appears...

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Moses ibn Ezra

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active intellect is another form Ibn Ezra describes as the passive intellect. This form of intellect is considered to be above the active intellect and superior...

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Pietro Pomponazzi

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entirely misconceived the Aristotelian theory of the active and the passive intellect. In On the Immortality of the Soul Pomponazzi argued specifically...

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Index of medieval philosophy articles

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Calculators Oxford Franciscan school Palla Strozzi Paolo da Pergola Passive intellect Patriarch Gennadios II of Constantinople Paul of Venice Peripatetic...

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Romantic epistemology

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nature, in intellection we are detached from nature, and in imagination re-united with nature. If we make passive understanding (intellection)- the power...

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Potentiality and actuality

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active intellect with being the "unmoved mover" and God. Nevertheless, as Davidson remarks: Just what Aristotle meant by potential intellect and active...

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Index of ancient philosophy articles

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Parmenides - Parrhesia - Parts of Animals - Pasicles of Thebes - Passive intellect - Patañjali - Pathos - Patro the Epicurean - Paulus Persa - Pelagius...

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Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi

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(The Theories Concerning the Material Intellect), in which Bedersi gives the diverse opinions on the Passive Intellect as expounded by Aristotle in De Anima...

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Cetacean intelligence

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befriended adult males. Xitco reported the ability of dolphins to eavesdrop passively on the active echolocative inspection of an object by another dolphin...

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Applied arts

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practical use, whose only purpose is to be beautiful or stimulate the intellect in some way. In practice, the two often overlap. Applied arts largely...

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Lecture

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that does not involve significant audience participation but relies upon passive learning. Therefore, lecturing is often contrasted to active learning....

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Samkhya

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and Prakriti becomes manifest, evolving twenty-three tattvas, namely intellect (buddhi, mahat), ego (ahamkara), mind (manas); the five sensory capacities...

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Mother Gothel

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supernatural powers, the character is forced to rely solely on her wit, charm, intellect and charisma, a conscious decision made by Greno and Howard. However,...

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