The phrase "intellectual speculation" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the act of thinking or considering a topic or idea at a deep or abstract level. Example: The philosopher engaged in intense intellectual speculation about the nature of reality.
This is a familiar wish with Grossman, for whom the requirements of intellectual speculation and narrative momentum often clash.
They also read like the sort of essay that regularly appears in Bayreuth Festival program books, long on literary and intellectual speculation and short on probing musical sophistication.
"Are travelers always interested," she asks, "airing" a thought, "in the middle of their journey?" This banality is typical of the "intellectual speculation" Millet confesses to enjoy, which signifies nothing.
Just like al-Ghazali, Aquinas had a mystical experience which told him that intellectual speculation was much less useful, as a path to God, than examining one's own heart and soul.
Mr Summers was almost forced to resign as president of Harvard University because he had dared to engage in intellectual speculation by arguing, in an informal seminar, that discrimination might not be the only reason why women are under-represented in the higher reaches of science and mathematics.
It is a bleak irony that atomic physics, the one area of intellectual speculation in which genuine progress was made during that 100 years and the source of perhaps the most profound, exciting and elegant discoveries man has ever made about himself and the world into which he finds himself thrown, should also have produced the means of general annihilation.
I use fiction in my art for speculation as an intellectual tool.
While I was trying to figure out how I could use that advice to seek divine instructions, I read a part in the book that said there is no need "to understand the language of the mantra, nor is there any need for mental speculation nor any intellectual adjustment".
Since the early days, the relationship of the error correction machinery with the SAC has proved a great intellectual challenge and a topic of speculation (McIntosh, 1991; Rieder and Palazzo, 1992).
The accusations, reported in The Boston Globe on Tuesday, sent shock waves through intellectual circles in Cambridge and beyond, along with speculation that a leader who has long weathered criticism about her sharp-elbowed management style might be out the door.
While some reviewers criticized Professor Dutton for indulging in unverifiable speculation, others praised the book for its intellectual reach, nuance and daring.
