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Moral and Political Philosophy Aesthetics Christology Ecclesiology Epistemology Human Person Logic Metaphysics Moral Theology Philosophy of Nature

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Moral and Political Philosophy Aesthetics Christology Ecclesiology Epistemology Human Person Logic Metaphysics Moral Theology Philosophy of Nature

Intellect
(also called Mind and Reason).— 1. A spiritual cognitive power. 2. The natural spiritual cognitive power by which human beings understand, judge, and reason.
Intension / Extension
(also called Comprehension/Extension).— The distinction in logic between the intelligible notes of a term, i.e., its intension, and the things in reality that it is supposed to indicate, i.e., its ext...
Intention
1. A mental being of some kind or the thing to which the attention of the intellect is directed.
Intentionality
The quality of being directed toward something. Normally, the term is used to refer either to the reference of a knower to what is known or an agent to an end to be achieved through a set of means....

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