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Faculty of
«In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.»
Author: Henri Bergson
(Philosopher)
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Intelligence
| Keywords:
artificial intelligence, faculty, Faculty of, feature, indefinitely, in short, manufacture, Manufacturing, The Faculty, urging
«God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.»
Author: Marcus Fabius Quintilian
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all powerful, animals, Animal World, architect, Creator, distinguish, faculty, Faculty of, impressed, proper, The Faculty
«Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.»
Author: Albert Pike
(Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier)
| Keywords:
accompany, comparison, doubting, faculty, Faculty of, improvement, onward, preliminary, prerogative, prerogatives, questioning, stages, The Faculty
«In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
contradictions, faculty, Faculty of, ignoring, in practice, in principle, set aside, The Faculty, trifles
«Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
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absent, assistance, Augustine, disagree, faculty, Faculty of
«Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
faculty, Faculty of, genius, perceiving, The Faculty
«I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.»
«It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
History,
Judgement,
Liberty,
Truth
| Keywords:
conclusions, counsels, faculty, Faculty of, leave office, observations, Office of, represent, thereupon
«I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beautines of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.»
«Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Genius
| Keywords:
faculty, Faculty of, in truth, perceiving, The Faculty
