intellectus possibilis
(intellectus possibilis )
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"possible or potential Intellect" |
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"possible or potential Intellect"; in Aristotelian and scholastic epistemology, the faculty of the mind actuated by intelligible forms and thus prompted to an act of understanding. |
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The Fullness of God: Frithjof Schuon on Christianity, by Frithjof Schuon, edited by Dr. James S. Cutsinger |
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