The phrase "intellectual capacities of" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example: "Education is important to develop the intellectual capacities of children."
It seems to sum up what Daniel Miller later tells me about how most people in the business seriously underestimate the artistic and intellectual capacities of young record buyers.
He also suggested that teachers should meet four times a year to examine together the intellectual capacities of each one of their pupils so that suitable programs of study could be arranged for them.
His views are also reflected in a book published next week, in which he writes: "There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically.
In 1997 Richard Posner, the conservative law professor and appeals court judge, wrote in The New Republic that "by repudiating reasoned argumentation," scholars like Professor Bell "reinforce stereotypes about the intellectual capacities of nonwhites".
Perry Anderson's short book, which began life as a foreword to Mr Jameson's, is as lucid and patient an account of the idea of post-modernity as you could wish for.By Noam Chomsky.Seven Stories Press; 176 pages; $32.Turnaround £22THOUGHHayekek mocked the intellectual capacities of intellectuals, in brainpower Noam Chomsky yields to none.
Rather, it is a sign of a well-executed enthymeme that the content and the number of its premises are adjusted to the intellectual capacities of the public audience; but even an enthymeme that failed to incorporate these qualities would still be enthymeme.
Yet it seems beyond the intellectual capacity of ministers in the Lords, notably Lord Bassam.
"It did not in any way denigrate the intellectual capacity of Indian people, nor their capacity to manage modern life," the council adjudication said.
They implied yes voters don't love their children and suggested Scots working-class women have the intellectual capacity of herring.
"If you let physics go, it's symptomatic of the fact that something has eroded in the intellectual capacity of academic institutions".
Dealing with James, her sixth child — quadriplegic, sleepless and with the intellectual capacity of a 3-month-old — filled her days and nights.
