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What does intellection mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The mental activity or process of grasping with the intellect; apprehension by the mind; understanding.
  2. (countable) A particular act of grasping by means of the intellect.
  3. (countable) The mental content of an act of grasping by means of the intellect, as a thought, idea, or conception.
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From the instrument of instinct there has been developed an instrument of intellection.
At his most masterly, Kinsella elides naturism and intellection in the structure of his phrases.
Averroes and Avicenna both teach that the human and active intellect conjoin in the moment of intellection.
But all this, be it understood, has no reference to the higher forms of intellection.
Writing was the great discovery, her process of intellection, the frontier.
But how in the first place do we get from potential intellect to actual intellection?

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