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Intellection vs Thinking - What's the difference?

intellection | thinking |

As nouns the difference between intellection and thinking

is that intellection is (uncountable) the mental activity or process of grasping with the intellect; apprehension by the mind; understanding while thinking is gerund of think.

As a verb thinking is

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intellection

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Noun

(en noun)
  • (uncountable) The mental activity or process of grasping with the intellect; apprehension by the mind; understanding.
  • *1993 , M. J. Edwards, "A Portrait of Plotinus," The Classical Quarterly , New Series, vol. 43, no. 2, p. 487:
  • *: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 .
  • (countable) A particular act of grasping by means of the intellect.
  • *1934 , R. V. Feldman, "The Metaphysics of Wonder and Surprise," Philosophy , vol. 9, no. 34, p. 210:
  • *:Our senses, our instincts, our intellections are all instruments of adaptation.
  • (countable) The mental content of an act of grasping by means of the intellect, as a thought, idea, or conception.
  • *1996 , Ananya, "Training in Indian Classical Dance: A Case Study," Asian Theatre Journal , vol. 13, no. 1, p. 77:
  • *: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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    thinking

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Gerund of think.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The machine of a new soul , passage= But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking —and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.}}

    Derived terms

    * critical thinking * thinking man * wishful thinking

    Verb

    (head)
  • *, chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking ; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}

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