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Human intellect Flashcards

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What does intelligence mean ?

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It is the ability to think and learn skills and apply them.

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How do we tell a person is intelligent

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With their ability to embrace reality and the depth and width of their grasp of reality.

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What are some of the factors of intelligence ?

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  1. Abstraction
  2. Judgement
  3. Reasoning
  4. Understanding
  5. Reflection
  6. Relating ideas / meaning to each other.
  7. Asking why
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How does the human know something (material)

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Body

Through the internal and external senses

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Explain the process that is undergone to know something material.

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The brain is the physical organ that receives data from external senses and uses the internal senses to form an image of the known object.

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How does the human know anything (spiritual)

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Through the intellect or mind.

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Explain the process that is undergone to know something spiritual

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rational power of a spiritual nature that captures the essence of the known object and forms a concept/idea of it.

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What is the object of the intellect ?

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Primary object - being

proper object - nature of physical beings

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What is proper object

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This is what is grasped directly and immediately and from which all else is known.

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How is the primary object - being

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The intellect reads into the very core of a physical object. It “sees” its essence (or substance, the result of the union of matter and form)

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NB Being is the first thing the mind grasps.

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e.g when we bump into some unknown thing the first thing we ask is “what is it”

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What is the intelligible concept.

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what do we call the being that is the proper object of the intellect that can neither be grasped by the external or internal senses:

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What is the question “what is this enquiring”

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It is enquiring the essence / way of being.

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What does the power of abstraction and judgement help intellect

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It enables the intellect to “read into” the heart of reality.

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What is the concept

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The end product of a process which has its point of departure in sensation.

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What is a feature of the intellect ?

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The intellect can actualize something cognitively

17
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What is the intellect actualizing something cognitively known as

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Giving it an intentional or immaterial existence

18
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What is the agent intellect

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They act upon representations of imagination, memory and the cogitative.

19
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What is passive intellect

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Acts on reasoning and judgement.

20
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What is the abstraction process ?

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External object > external senses > internal senses > Image/phantasm > agent intellect > intelligible species > passive intellect > concept idea > word.

21
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What is knowledge ?

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The intentional possession of the form or figure of something in the knowing subject.

22
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What is the second meaning of essence

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the unity of matter and form.

23
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What is intellect

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The human intellect is the capacity that man has to go beyond himself and enter into contact with the world around him, understand it and come to possess it in an immaterial manner.

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What is the process of intellection ?

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  1. Abstraction or simple apprehension.
  2. Judgement
  3. Reasoning
  4. Reflection
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What is abstraction all about ?

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The act by which the intellect knows an essence, and produces a concept/ idea.

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What is judgement

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the process which the intellect verifies the truth of the judgement by relating it or comparing it to reality.

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What is reasoning ?

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This is the logical linking of judgements / propositions, or movement towards/ search for meaning

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What is reflection ?

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This is ongoing, progressive deepening in our understanding of the ideas and concepts generated through the intellectual knowing process.

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What is the main aim of thinking ?

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To know the truth.

30
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What are the two types of truth

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  1. Logical truth

2. Ontological truth

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What is logical truth ?

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This is when the truth in my mind agrees with reality.

The conformity of the intellect to things.

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What is ontological truth ?

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This is the truth that conforms to the mind of the creator.. Ontological truth is the conformity of some beings to some intelligence.

33
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What is IQ

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This is the ability of a person to abstract and read into the nature of things, including his ability to analyze ideas.

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What is emotional intelligence

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Refers to competence to identify and express, understand and assimilate emotions in thought.

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What are the four aspects of emotional intelligence

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  1. Identification of emotions
  2. reflection on these emotions and how they impact thinking and relating with others.
  3. Monitoring emotions
  4. Management of emotions.

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