Sentence examples for intellectual aim from inspiring English sources

Mania sharpened his intellectual aim even as it blunted his censor.

As I have spelled out in detail in my From Knowledge to Wisdom (Blackwell, 1984), we urgently need to bring about a revolution in academic inquiry so that the basic intellectual aim becomes social wisdom and not just specialised knowledge.

In channeling the noble soul of a simple folk musician from the state of Quintana Roo -- this was clearly her intellectual aim -- Ms. Downs's delivery grew so heavy-handed that the performance verged on parody.

Still in rented rooms, the society had 26,000 volumes and was open every day from 8 30 a.m. to 9 30 p.m. to serve not just scholars, The Times said, but also those "whose intellectual aim is no higher than the superficial pabulum of the daily newspaper".

It grew out of the work on human factors or ergonomics with the intellectual aim of analyzing tasks that people perform with computers and the practical concerns of designing more usable and reliable computer systems.

In many biological contexts, such as developmental biology, the intellectual aim is to explain phenomena instantiated in many organisms; and the use of model organisms is predicated on this aim.[13] Any version of epistemic reductionism has to address this feature of scientific knowledge and explanation to be adequate.

It is a hoot, and would appeal to readers of lads' mags, if they could only ignore the ponderous sociological jargon designed to show high intellectual aims.

That's a category invented by snobby intellectuals, aimed at the art of the lower class.

"It's kind of the flip side of the superhero market, a soft intellectual property aimed more at girls," he says.

Psychologists have concentrated on thinking as an intellectual exertion aimed at finding an answer to a question or the solution of a practical problem.

The principal object of Rorty's derision was neither identity politics nor the rise of an ignoble free-market right but a peculiar form of decadence, which his larger intellectual project aimed to counter.