intellective

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So my intellective function from the day I met her started going up to keep up with her.

From Washington Post • Jun. 13, 2021

Therefore the subject of charity is not the sensitive, but the intellective appetite, i.e. the will.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

But very differently from Plato he discovered these in the categories or essential forms of intellective action,—the category of causality and dependence and the so-called forms of the transcendental æsthetic—Time and Space.

From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander

The three heads signify the intellective, dianoetic, and doxatic powers.

From The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Wright, Dudley

But the intellective virtue in the commanding power is distinct from the moral virtue in the power commanded, as is declared in Ethic. i, 13.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint