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.
That's a category invented by snobby intellectuals, aimed at the art of the lower class.
This book, which maps his 40-year journey of discovery and "intellectual realignment", aims to counter the prevailing notion of a conflict between science and faith by showing that, together, they offer a way of looking at the world that is "both rationally satisfying and imaginatively exciting".
"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.
