Second, intellectual agents and communities are the primary source of epistemic value and the primary focus of epistemic evaluation.
VE's second basic commitment is that intellectual agents and communities are the primary source of epistemic value and the primary focus of epistemic evaluation.
That laid the foundation for decades more of a pointless and costly arms race, and spawned a whole industry of intellectual agents provocateurs whose role was to challenge conventional thinking with "rule-breaking" brilliance - even when, especially when, the conventional thinking was right.
"I'm an intellectual free agent and I don't pander to anybody's view.
One German exile referred to him as "an intellectual customs agent and border guard, appointed on his own authority".
Probably neither, but you might be forgiven for thinking some of today's biotech companies and their intellectual property agents would patent your granny, given half the chance.
The US$50 million transaction involves the sale of two manufacturing sites located in Somersby, Australia, and Sungai Petani, Malaysia, as well as intellectual property for release agents, wetting agents and catalysts used to generate laminates, engineered wood and other products.
Keith Boesky, a video game agent and intellectual property lawyer who helped broker the deal with Mr. Bruckheimer, said recently, "Everybody these days is talking about transmedia, but Jordan is the first guy to actually do it".
Malone discussed his goals, work and background in a session recorded and transcribed by Edge.org, the Web site developed by the literary agent and intellectual impressario John Brockman as something of an online science salon.
While most people require preliminary training of the senses to prepare their souls for intellectual cognition, which the Agent Intellect automatically grants,[41] some few individuals with prodigious intuitions can, as we saw, grasp intelligible concepts and propositions immediately.
