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intellectionnoun something imagined or pictured in the mindnotebooks filled with his intellections on an amazing array of topics abstraction, cogitation, concept, conception, idea, image, impression, mind's eye, notion, picture, thought apprehension, premonition, presentimentpreconception, prejudice, prepossessionchimera, delusion, hallucination, illusion, phantasm(also fantasm)caprice, conceit, fancy, freak, kink, vagary, whimcognition, observation, perception, reflectionassumption, belief, conclusion, convictionconjecture, guess, hunch, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmise, theorybrainchild, brainstorm, brain wave, inspiration actuality, fact, reality the thought processes that have been established as leading to valid solutions to problemsever since Decartes famously declared, "I think, therefore I am," people have tended to regard acts of conscious intellection as proof of their own existence logic, ratiocination, reason, reasoning, sense cogency, coherence, logicality, logicalness, rationality, rationalnessconvincingness, persuasivenesssyllogism, synthesisanalysis, dissectiondeduction, inductionargumentation, disputation illogic, incoherenceabsurdity, brainlessness, insanity, irrationality, nonsensicalness, preposterousness, senselessness ca. 1526 |