intellectual coherence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofintellectualandcoherence
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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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coherence
noun[U]
uk/kəʊˈhɪə.rəns/us/koʊˈhɪr.əns/
the situation when the parts of something fit together in a natural or ...
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(Definition ofintellectualandcoherencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Furthermore, the selection deliberately avoids a chronological approach, following, instead, a thematic one that provides the chosen texts with a particularly noteworthyintellectualcoherence.
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The shaping chapter vii, for all its brilliance, ultimately cannot sustain theintellectualcoherenceto which this work aspires.
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Considering the many authors of this book, one might expect it to be stylistically uneven and lacking inintellectualcoherence.
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Probably not, and if so, why should archaeologists not be granted the same capacity ofintellectualcoherence?
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If these themes had been used to organize the discussions by each of the authors, the book would have had greaterintellectualcoherence.
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It is not, however, necessary to be too precise because the other works of the authors indicate a sufficient degree ofintellectualcoherencefor the purposes of the article.
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In simple terms it assumes that legal developments are driven by underlying moral assumptions which require 'storylines' to provideintellectualcoherenceand internal logic to these developments.
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The draft treaty on economic and monetary union has anintellectualcoherenceabout it.
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It contains nointellectualcoherenceat all; rather it contains many practical dangers and backward steps.
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Somewhere in the middle of that argument theintellectualcoherencebecomes a trifle unravelled.
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The achievement ofintellectualcoherenceshould lead to that coherence and integration of personality and judgment which is the highest fruit of high culture and high learning.
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There is nointellectualcoherence.
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With consideration of the selection pressure on cognition, cognitive ecology can contributeintellectualcoherenceto the multidisciplinary study of cognition.
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