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Question

"the power or faculty of the mind by which one knows or understands, as distinguished from that by which one feels and that by which one wills; the understanding; the faculty of thinking and acquiring knowledge. "

What exactly does as mean here? as = In the manner agreed by definition = adverb?

Do you recognize the word defined above?;)

Marius Hancu · Accepted Answer

These aren't easy definitions.

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Function: preposition

1 : after the manner of : the same as : LIKE<had seen strong men become as weaklings when they were faced with ... being shipwrecked -- H.A.Chippendale> <his face was as a mask of gauze through which nothing was quite clearly visible -- Max Beerbohm>

2 a : in the character, role, function, capacity, condition, or sense of <more interested in ... attitudes as attitudes than he is in their definition and embodiment in aesthetic forms -- Mark Schorer> <eager for power as power> <his appearance as Hamlet> <his appointment as instructor> b : in a way or of a nature constituting <he comes home at six as a rule> <as a result of the trip he was exhausted> c : for consideration or considered in a specified form or relation -- usually used before prepositions and participles (as against, between, distinguished, and opposed) <his argument as against yours> <my opinion as distinguished from theirs>

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Inchoateknowledge · Answer

considered in a specified relation to that faculty of the mind that intellect is distinguished from: by which one feels and that by which one wills, so as to determine the scope of the meaning of intellect, and the word to not be wrongly used to refer to other faculties of the mind.

Thanks Marius

Marius Hancu · Answer

>as distinguished from that by which one feels and that by which one wills

My reading:

taken separately from and in comparison with that by which one feels and that by which one wills

or

in contrast with that by which one feels and that by which one wills

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