[There are] one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors, who have no aim beyond their facts, are one-story men. Two-story men compare, reason, generalize, using the labor of the fact collectors as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, predict; their best illumination comes from above, through the skylight. (Oliver Wendell Ho...

philosophers view the advantage of human soul over animal soul in theoretical and practical intellect. however, there is disagreement among them in stating the quiddity of these two intellects. with a deliberation on their words, at least four interpretations can be implied from these two intellects. after reporting the statements and expressing the functions of practical intellect, the article...

Avicenna is a renowned peripatetic philosopher whose rationality continuously draws the attention of many scholars. In many of his works, he resorts to the hierarchy of intellects (angels) to explain the process of the emanation of the multiplicity from the One, as well as the emergence of beings. As these intellects are among the ontological causes of the human soul in the arc of descent, they...

'If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellects that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.'

E-business is to do commercial activities taking advantage of the advanced information network and computer technology. In China e-business has advanced in a certain degree not only in basic facilities and infrastructure, e-business regulations, and general economic laws, but also in theoretical researches and operation. However, e-business also gives a challenge to government and enterprises. ...

Abstract Kant states in §76 of the third Critique that divine intuitive intellect would not represent modal distinctions. Kohl (2015) and Stang (2016) claim this statement entails noumena lack properties, which, turn, conflicts with Kant’s attribution contingency to human noumenal wills. They both propose resolutions conflict based on conjectures regarding how God might non-modally what our dis...

I n 1635, at the founding of Connecticut, there were no physicians in the state. The native Americans had their shamans, and the first colonists relied on their most educated men, the ministers of the churches. The era of the cleric-physician endured through colonial times. These individuals, with their degrees in divinity, their intellects, their libraries, and the respect of their followers, ...

In a high-capacity cellular network with limited spectral resources, it is desirable to minimize the radio bandwidth costs associated with paging while locating mobile users. Reduction of communication overhead has become a burning issue of today. It induces the intellects to innovate some means which are cost reducing by nature. Location management aims to reduce this overhead through predicti...