intellectus possibilis (intellectus possibilis)

(Language: Latin)

Short Description: possible or potential Intellect

Long Description: “possible or potential Intellect”; in Aristotelian and scholastic epistemology, the faculty of the mind actuated by intelligible forms and thus prompted to an act of understanding.

Sources: The Fullness of God: Frithjof Schuon on Christianity, by Frithjof Schuon, edited by Dr. James S. Cutsinger