Indeed, in some crucial ways, they represent an intellectual step backward from a left that had recognised atheism as necessary but scarcely sufficient.
He spoke of taking a new intellectual step beginning with his experience as a member of the Resistance living in France during the German occupation, which he expressed artistically by describing collective action against the evil threatening the community in his novel, The Plague.
I've just dragged myself away from Just Cause 3, onto Far Cry Primal, which I see as being an intellectual step-up.
"That's the point of humor — it bypasses intellectual steps and gets to the heart of things".
Instead of reading and memorizing summaries of research, ICB readers were encouraged to take the same intellectual steps as the original scientists and draw their own conclusions.
But as he well knows, precisely the same intellectual two-step was performed by George W. Bush's many critics, who simultaneously denounced him as a scheming, constitution-shredding warmonger and as a world-historical dunce.
"Our ministers and intellectuals might step outside of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, take a brief walk beyond their ghettos, which would surely help them to cast just a little doubt on a few of their certitudes," Esther Benbassa, a senator and researcher at the Sorbonne, wrote in Libération.
Immediate change is limited to options that are only one step (intellectual or biological) away.
This toy was a step into intellectual realms no one had entered before.
(For further comments, see Sec. 4.5 of Griffiths (2014).) Abandoning unicity is certainly a radical proposal, comparable in the history of science to the radical step our intellectual ancestors took when they replaced the centuries old notion of an immovable earth with the modern concept of a spinning planet in motion around the sun.
In a growing number of industries, competitors are beginning to share some of their intellectual property as a step toward improving their industry and their own chances of survival.
