The phrase "appeal to the intellect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing arguments, ideas, or messages that are designed to engage or stimulate intellectual thought.
Example: "The author's ability to appeal to the intellect of the audience made the lecture both engaging and thought-provoking."
Alternatives: "engage the mind" or "stimulate intellectual curiosity".
The American impressionist George Innes wrote at the time: "A work of art does not appeal to the intellect.
"At Esquire, we believe we can successfully appeal to the intellect of our readers as well as satisfy their curiosity about, uh, celebrities".
They appeal to the intellect rather than the libido, and often make direct quotation of earlier works of art history, particularly Renaissance sculpture and Baroque printmaking.
The vernacular is the unconscious work of craftsmen based on knowledge accumulated over generations the very opposite of architecture, which involves a premeditated design process with a conscious appeal to the intellect.
Second, in cases in which the sense modalities are not in agreement either because one modality yields a different result than another modality, or because a single modality yields different results at different times we can appeal to the intellect to adjudicate among them.
Deprived of its strongest claim to interest, a sympathetic response in the moral and religious sentiment of its readers, it can only appeal to the intellect as a work of art, or as a more or less successful attempt at antiquarian restoration.
She did that rare thing: make you think with your heart and feel with your head; she was a poet who appealed to the intellect as much as the emotions, and in that sense she had much in common with her old friend Audre Lorde.
The evidence suggests that such practices can be effective (Hargeaves et al. 2010, Marteau et al. 2011) but the model of human nature on which they are based is different to that of the rational, agentive human being who can be persuaded by appeals to the intellect or the emotions.
And that's in its direct appeal to the shadows beneath the intellect, a realm of atavistic fears, sorrows and desires.
The books of Scripture are written for an unsophisticated, uneducated audience and convey information in a way that is suited to such an audience, in the form of fantastical accounts and parables that appeal to the imagination rather than the intellect.
They had appealed to the conscience, intellect and self-interest of the ruling classes.
