Classical Psychology: Intellect/Understanding/Mind

In classical thought, the soul has certain faculties, as identified by distinct psychological activities/capacities. One of these is the intellect (sometimes termed the "understanding" or the "mind"): the faculty by which the soul apprehends knowledge (notitia). The action of the intellect is properly called cognition, of which there are two basic kinds.

1. Lower or sensuous cognition, which is understood in terms of immediate sense perception [of empirical data], and which produces percepts [defined as basic mental concepts apprehended as a consequence of the process of lower cognition].
2. Higher or rational cognition, which is understood in terms of logically ordering percepts, and which produces concepts.