Sentence examples for intellectual primacy from inspiring English sources

Such eastern Greek influences on thinking in the mainland imply a general Ionian intellectual primacy, which is most obvious in the sphere of speculative thinking.

During the 1960's, when the most hard-edged atonal composers claimed intellectual primacy in American music, tonal composers were condescended to.

But it also speaks to their desire to hold back information that has enormous intellectual primacy.

That said, the scientists at the Max-Planck-Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) have invested a huge amount of time and effort in their camera system, and understandably claim intellectual primacy on its products.

The clinician still held intellectual primacy and dictated the research agenda: clinically observed problems with the goal of better, earlier clinical diagnosis.

If we go so far as to accept that our intellectual and even emotional primacy as humans might be disappearing, must we also entertain the idea of our own extinction as a species in nature?

An important consequence of the reduction is that it allows Gerard to be neutral on the question of the primacy of the intellectual or the material with respect to objects of taste, over which internal-sense theorists and imagination theorists had divided.

He analyses the dangerous period, not quite over, when intellectuals "bold enough to assert the primacy of reason over revelation knew they were doing so at their own peril .But reason, Mr Rodenbeck seems to suggest, is bound to prevail among Egyptians.

Oded Shenkar, a professor of business management at Ohio State University and author of "The Chinese Century," said very few companies would be willing to leave a market as big as China's, and that it might make sense only for a company like Google whose primacy rested almost entirely on intellectual property.

Stalin's chief ideological hatchet man, Andrey Zhdanov, a secretary of the Central Committee, began a reign of terror in the Soviet artistic and intellectual world; foreign achievements were derided, and the primacy of Russians as inventors and pioneers in practically every field was asserted.

That is why we have to work so hard to protect our intellectual property and assert... our values and the primacy of acts of creation".