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It is believed that the primary source of the concept "intellectuals" can be considered as the Greek word noesis - consciousness, the understanding of their highest degree. Over time, the Greek concept spawned in the Roman culture of the word intelligentia, which bore a different semantic meaning, without the subtleties - a good degree of understanding consciousness. The word used comic playwright Terence (190-159 gg. BC). And then later in the Latin meaning interpreted by the ability to understand (mental ability).