Greek · Greek philosophy
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Heard as noose
- Period
- classical to late antique
- Semantic range
- Intellect, understanding, the capacity to grasp.
- What it can mean
- From ordinary intelligence to Aristotle's intellect to Plotinus's divine Intellect.
- What it should not be equated with
- Not phenomenal consciousness. Intellect is not experience as such.
- Primary or early source
- Aristotle; Plotinus.
- Scholarly source
- Ancient philosophy of mind.
- Relation to other terms
- A cognitive height distinct from sense, not a translation of consciousness.