intellectual activity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofintellectualandactivity
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intellectual
adjective
uk/ˌɪn.təlˈek.tʃu.əl/us/ˌɪn.t̬əlˈek.tʃu.əl/
relating to your ability to think and understand things, especially ...
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activity
noun
uk/ækˈtɪv.ə.ti/us/ækˈtɪv.ə.t̬i/
the situation in which a lot of things are happening or people are ...
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(Definition ofintellectualandactivityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It appears that the possibility of divineintellectualactivitydepends on the possession of certain properties while the existence of properties in general depends upon divineintellectualactivity.
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It was advised not as an internalizedintellectualactivitybut as a social and communal process.
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But there are too many of them to arise as a result of humanintellectualactivity.
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Analysis is only a part, though a necessary part, ofintellectualactivity.
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What other pockets ofintellectualactivityintrigue you, and will they be stable in the long run?
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The numerous types ofintellectualactivitythat engaged women's attention also underscore great variation in local and national contexts.
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In doing so, we gain the opportunity to question even lighter applications of statistical methods in reconstructingintellectualactivity.
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The theistic activist maintains that the existence of abstract objects and their nature is dependent on divineintellectualactivity.
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Perhaps this - partly explains the scarcity of information on the 6th / 12th centuryintellectualactivityexamined here.
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They also share the view that the most complete and perfect exercise of our rational capacity isintellectualactivity.
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It seems necessary to me to emphasise here the circumstances under which this intenseintellectualactivitytook place, at the end of the war.
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Put differently, this author advocated for women superlative spirituality andintellectualactivity, of the sort that benefits the individual as well as society at large.
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Theory isintellectualactivitywhose end is unchanging truth, valued for its own sake, and not useful for some other end.
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Of course, a market account ofintellectualactivityassigns a much greater role to consumers of economic analysis: journal editors, foundations officials and policymakers.
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And this interaction applies whether they are physically co-present in the same location or distributed in time and space, as is the case in muchintellectualactivity.
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Any glimpse not merely of "will" but also ofintellectualactivitymust be rapidly crushed - for, evangelicals claimed, human reason itself was antagonistic to rabbinical law.
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But in addition, the burst ofintellectualactivityin print triggered by the missionary challenge also prompted the retrieval, translation and wide distribution of preprint indigenous manuscripts.
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An important question facing scholars investigating the ancient past is the extent to whichintellectualactivitymay be recovered from the archaeological record by statistical means.
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I believe that our debate focused on religion as anintellectualactivity.
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His life was signed by a strongintellectualactivity.
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The highest form of life is, however, purelyintellectualactivity.
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I have known judges of extreme old age, and suffering from extreme physical weakness, display the most amazingintellectualactivity.
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A person's wholeintellectualactivitycan be channelled into writing a book and other people get the benefit of it.
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He has had numerous opportunities to inject at least a smattering ofintellectualactivityinto the debate.
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