The term intellect includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge, as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, &c. - William Fleming

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The term intellect includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge, as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, &c.

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William Fleming (1791 – 1866) was a British philosopher, and Professor of Moral Philosophy at the , known from his 1857 Vocabulary of philosophy, mental, moral, and metaphysical.

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SYNTHESIS (σύν θέσις, a putting together, composition) — "consists in assuming the causes discovered and established as principles, and by them explaining the phenomena proceeding from them and proving the explanation." — Newton, Optics

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