"intellectual threads" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to thoughts and ideas that are related or connected. For example: "The conversation revealed many interesting intellectual threads related to contemporary politics."
What is the common intellectual thread among these people, or the formative family experience?
"Empowering women," the designer said backstage, defining the intellectual thread that united art with Africa.
The man continues to play with this intellectual thread in the next scene.
They are, at bottom, victims of the rich world's "secular stagnation", argues Paul Krugman of the New York Times.Over the next couple of posts, I hope to show there is an intellectual thread connecting these three positions.
Professors such as Wieman, Charles Hartshorne, Bernard Loomer, Bernard Meland, and Daniel Day Williams made Whitehead's philosophy arguably the most important intellectual thread running through the Divinity School.
And Continuum's broad, mysterious first album attempts the wide-angle purview you might expect of a young Cuban intellectual, entwining threads of Africa, Europe, the Antilles and America; it sounds obsessed with tradition and newness and how they bleed into each other.
But beyond the injuries of protest, black students bear the weight of the theoretical work of unravelling the thread of the intellectual project.
So far they are disparate ideas, hanging threads waiting for a broader intellectual movement to collect them.
The philosophical thread that runs through Galileo's intellectual life is a strong and increasing desire to find a new conception of what constitutes natural philosophy and how natural philosophy ought to be pursued.
Ten years ago, Robinson published "The Death of Adam," a collection of bracingly contrarian essays whose common thread was a defense of the Puritan intellectual and ethical tradition.
