 The active intellect, in the sense described, is more properly called the Agent Intellect, as it is the force triggering intellection in the human mind and causing thoughts to pass from the potential to the actual.It must not be confused with the "intellect in act", which is the result of that triggering, and is more akin to the psychological term "active knowledge".Another term for the final result of intellection, that is to say a person's accumulated knowledge, is the "acquired intellect".