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  • The special faculties required for the brain to exercise its soul's dominion are identified as the imagination (here called wahm, a term that Avicenna was to adopt and expand upon); a cogitative power (al-fikr); and memory (al-hifz).

    Arabic and Islamic Psychology and Philosophy of Mind Ivry, Alfred 2008

  • Avicenna does not limit wahm to animals, as Averroes later assumed, [32] but rather conceived it broadly, affecting logical as well as physical subjects.

    Arabic and Islamic Psychology and Philosophy of Mind Ivry, Alfred 2008

  • They comprise a novel faculty of “estimation” (following the Latin aestimatio), wahm in Arabic; and a second, chameleon type faculty.

    Arabic and Islamic Psychology and Philosophy of Mind Ivry, Alfred 2008

  • Is 45 dekrees so iz gud to bee in wahm offis. had to leaf floofie blankie at home – i haz a sad.

    waayt! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • The most influential pieces of psychological doctrine imported from the Arabs probably were Avicenna's theory of estimation (wahm), his theory of potential, acquired and active intellects, and Averroes 'thesis that there is one intellect for all human beings.

    Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on the Latin West Hasse, Dag Nikolaus 2008

  • The triumph of Scheherazade is the triumph of wahm (“imagination”) over the legitimacy of the keepers of çidq (“truth”); she corrodes their credibility.18 Cheddadi then delineates the sad destiny of the quççaç(“street storytellers”), of which Salman Rushdie is a modern heir, and explains that their expulsions from mosques came about because the distinction between their fiction and “Truth” is a tricky one.

    Scheherazade Goes West Fatema Mernissi 2001

  • "Isn't it rathah wahm foh such violent exercise, gentlemen?"

    Kid Wolf of Texas 1938

  • Silence then for a little while, when again the first voice was heard: "Why, my feet's right wahm!"

    The Law of the Land Emerson Hough 1890

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