What Is Intellect? Part One

Well, as we may expect, opinions differ, and among psychologists as well as philosophers. But the psychologist, being a professed empirical scientist, focuses on the succession of events going on in the mind, whereas the philosopher's concern is with intellect as man's instrument for grasping reality. The latter puts the problem here taken up: What are the office and status of intellect in respect of man's grasp of reality? But, of course, the answer is not independent of the psychological facts; it reveals their significance for knowledge of the real world about us

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