"intellectual apparatus" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to refer to one's mental capacity, intelligence, or thinking ability. It can also refer to the tools or systems used for intellectual pursuits or learning. Example: "With her vast knowledge and impressive intellectual apparatus, she was able to solve the complex problem in no time."
So what is keeping the mainstream's intellectual apparatus going?
Belief, ideology – the whole intellectual apparatus of public politics – can now be bypassed.
But the intellectual apparatus and clever chamber programming went a long way in compensation.
It would be easy to conclude that Fraser's intellectual apparatus might have cooled the ardor of the most passionate suitor.
Immoral hazards are more common than moral hazards, but the intellectual apparatus of economics fails to cope with them.
Like many artists, Mr. Condo has built an elaborate intellectual apparatus to explain what he does, and like most artists, what he does is more interesting than his explanations.
What this article overlooks is that reform must also come in the shape of a genuine paradigm shift in the intellectual and bureaucratic apparatus of the government.
This point of view did not align him with the Fabians, intellectual socialists who advocated using state apparatus to change social conditions, nor did it endear him to the monied classes whom he had previously entertained.
Here in the West we react with great outrage at any violation of our rights because we are lucky enough to have created an efficient legal apparatus that guarantees the protection of our intellectual property.
In practical terms, the solicitor general brings intellectual heft at the apex of the government's internal legal apparatus, particularly in circumstances where the attorney general is more a politician than a lawyer.
These long letters, unfinished and unmailed, are sendups of an intellectual's effort to understand human behavior by means of the conceptual apparatus of Mortimer Adler's Great Books.
