"If [Yale's] purpose is to set a model for a liberal arts education, why not engage India, the country with a free and contentious public sphere and an extra-ordinary intellectual life both in India and in the Indian diaspora?
But then, on my side, there was this extra thing of being intellectual and academically high-achieving.
And the IMF's analytical work whether in identifying the scale of the losses from the financial meltdown or in predicting the effect of the crisis on public finances has helped reinforce its intellectual credentials.The extra cash has allowed the IMF to go into crisis-hit countries with packages that can make a difference.
Remember: it always, always, always pays to put that little bit extra effort into your intellectual life, because anybody with a hint of class knows that there's nothing less impressive than a dimwit.
"I love the extra responsibility; I love the intellectual freedom; I love the brainstorming we do," he says.
On the other hand, we could certainly have intellectual acquaintance with extra-mental objects, if our concepts were particular things in the extra-mental world as they exist extra-mentally — a final position Auriol criticizes — but we would be unable to have necessary, scientific knowledge, Auriol's third explanatory requirement.
demonstrate a record of intellectual distinction, leadership, extra-curricular activity, and service to others.
Moreover, not only these same types of representational views of concepts, but also any theory that holds concepts to be Platonic Ideas, would hinder us in having intellectual acquaintance with extra-mental objects, Auriol's second explanatory requirement.
Intellectual cognition (see Friedman 1999; Adriaenssen 2014, esp. pp. 85 95; Friedman 2015): Auriol's solution to the question of what a concept is takes its point of departure in the necessity of explaining three things at once: essential predication; intellectual acquaintance with extra-mental objects; and necessary, scientific knowledge.
