The images produced by the imagination are then used by the active intellect, which is what actually makes us understand.

First one can be inspired "by the mere infusion of light" which helps the active intellect to understand something that it would not have otherwise.

He also believed that a person who has perfected his thinking could interact with the laws of nature through the active intellect.

This is under the influence, according to Al Farabi, of the active intellect.

The active intellect, as in Alfarabi, is the last in the chain.

So the immaterial "active intellect", separate from any individual person, is still essential for understanding to occur.

He brought an active and keen intellect to the challenges that our patient population can make to traditional health services.

In Aristotelianism, at least one psychological force, the active intellect, can exist apart from the body.

But habituation and other such escape strategies are not the result of any active intellect.

The active intellect was the subject of intense discussion in medieval philosophy.