But the fact that the reference to an icily logical intellectual is so easily understood is a tribute to the cultural superpower status of Star Trek, which continued this week with the announcement that the American sci-fi franchise will screen, in 2017, its seventh TV incarnation since the programme was first seen in 1966.
People might think that using logical intellectual arguments is the most efficient way to win people over.
The less defensive and less emotional a person becomes, the greater the chance he or she can have a logical, intellectual discussion about the issues at hand.
Nor did sonata form take into account the heightened emotional statements that many Romantic-era composers were inclined to make since it was designed to operate on a logical, intellectual level, not an emotive one.
In his writings, van der Post depicted the Bushmen as primitive, instinctual, childlike, whereas white men were logical, reasonable, intellectual.
Equally important is Zen's contention that both logical and intellectual methods are abstract, for they become divorced from the actual reality of day-to-day existence.
Zen's zero time should not be confounded with the idea of eternity standing outside a temporal series (e.g., Thomas Aquinas, Newton's "absolute time") by means of a logical or intellectual transcendence, nor the zero space to be identified with "absolute space" (e.g., Newton) wherein there is no content of experience.
There is one man who likes to stand directly in front of the clinic doors and scream -- in earshot of the waiting room -- what he thinks are logical and intellectual arguments against abortion, but what are actually misinformed and wildly inaccurate fragments of his hyper-religious imagination.
Few answers are within logical or intellectual solutions (no matter how smart the dreamer).
There are so many layers to the opera, from the fairy-tale aspect to Mozart's concern with Freemasonry — the intellectual, logical dimension represented by Sarastro.
Ms. Hirsi Ali says, "Irshad is the most admirable person I know who is trying to achieve change from within," but she agrees with Mr. Hitchens that "from an intellectual, logical perspective," Ms. Manji's religious faith and her own secularism can't be reconciled.
