Sentence:  If art is to release us from these postulated things [ things we must <WSD>think</WSD> symbolically about ] and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy , it must sever its connection with these common sense entities '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments