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Discover Ludwig"intellectual distancing" is a valid and commonly used phrase in written English
It refers to the act of creating emotional or mental distance between oneself and a topic or idea. Here is an example: "In order to critically analyze a controversial issue, one must engage in intellectual distancing, setting aside personal biases and emotions to objectively examine all perspectives."
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Ironically, while stethoscopes helped doctors become physically intimate with patients, they represented an intellectual distancing.
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The intellectual distance was too great".
And he writes acutely about scale and intellectual distance.
"Our emotional and intellectual distance had been destroyed".
The intellectual distance between the honey shot and the sideline report has become precariously small.
And there were times I felt an intellectual distance between the performers and their roles.
I use finger quotes to indicate intellectual distance between myself and the quotation.
This production maintains its intellectual distance by stopping and fast-forwarding the filmed action.
The Fiasco cast members don't keep an intellectual distance from the characters they play.
We need to witness them — with intellectual distance, yes — not simply attend a dramatized lecture.
Still, she kept her intellectual distance, believing that lay writers often had a tendency to lionize science.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com