For the once-thriving intellectual explanations of the world's past, particularly Marxism and post-colonial theory, have come to seem threadbare.
These intellectual explanations make me feel like I've been transported to Asgard or some equally magical place, but the truth is its just Madison, Wisconsin and that's good enough for me.
(As discussed in Section 2 below, the nature of this intellectual "seeing" needs explanation).
The explanation is intellectual.
There may be a more benign explanation than intellectual pretension for unread best sellers ("Let Us Now Praise Books Well Sold, Well Loved but Seldom Read," Arts & Ideas pages, July 15).
Research has debunked one long-popular explanation: inferior intellectual ability.
What this suggests, and what in fact we have independent reason to think, is that on Epicurus' view, once one is in a position adequately to explain sense-perception, one will then also be in a position to work out an explanation of intellectual cognition, by appropriately extending the explanation of sense-perception.
He prefers show-and-tell to lengthy explanations and intellectual tangents.
With "Directed Panspermia," he prepared, in effect, an intellectual escape hatch, an alternative explanation for life should scientists in fact find it too hard to account plausibly for the remarkably rapid emergence of earth's first life forms.
The scene is so bizarre, and its details — like the brown-paper attachments to her breasts, rendering them more pendulous — so peculiar, that you look forward to what follows because you hope for, if not explanation, poetic or intellectual coherence.
