The phrase "intellectual model" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe a person or process based on thought and reason instead of tangible elements. For example, one might say, "This scientist created a new intellectual model for understanding the human genome."
More than one writer took Rimbaud as an intellectual model, inspired by his fluid sexual identity and his pursuit of a total "derangement of the senses".
The intellectual model is not the dour Ayn Rand but Bay Area philosophers and gurus who imagine that limitless progress can be achieved through technology.
A child who learns to program "both acquires a sense of mastery over a piece of the most modern and powerful technology and establishes an intimate contact with some of the deepest ideas from science, from mathematics, and from the art of intellectual model building," Papert wrote in his book, "Mindstorms," which was published in 1980.
What he brought to spycraft was the intellectual model of the New Criticism, which, as one contributor to Furioso put it, was propelled by "the discovery that it is possible and proper for a poet to mean two differing or even opposing things at the same time".
Tufte: For the past year I've been helping the Recovery and Accountability Transparency Board develop an intellectual model for Recovery.gov.gov
"Those are exactly in the California intellectual model," Kammen said, "It's 'We are going to forge ahead, and the green jobs will go to those who act.' ".
But we have no intellectual models for "active management" of automobile travel, which – since its inception – has been associated with personal freedom.
Her own research as an independent scholar was on the links between African-American and American Indian histories, and Turner was one of her intellectual models, making her, even with limited museum experience, a logical person to undertake the show.
Any sociology or economics professor would layer on all sorts of fancy intellectual models.
This course of study will provide future leaders with a foundation in the primary challenges, intellectual models, and approaches associated with global governance.
There are multiple potential purposes for formalizing one's intellectual framework into a model, whether conceptual or quantitative.
