intellectual foundation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofintellectualandfoundation
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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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foundation
noun
uk/faʊnˈdeɪ.ʃən/us/faʊnˈdeɪ.ʃən/
an occasion when an organization, state, etc. ...
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(Definition ofintellectualandfoundationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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As he discarded the distracting rubble, he would eventually reach the "rock or the clay," or an immutableintellectualfoundationthat was free of faulty assumptions.
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He was devoid of conviction, which is not surprising because his case lacks any sound principle andintellectualfoundation.
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Their proposals are devoid of sound principles and of anyintellectualfoundation.
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What the document said is, in fact, theintellectualfoundationof new clause 1.
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It is based on just as coherent a set of assumptions and just as firm anintellectualfoundationas the monetarist policy.
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But itsintellectualfoundationis also to be demolished.
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This was theintellectualfoundationof the field they called the social construction of technology.
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Figure 1 suggests schematically the relationship of intellectual foundations, societal context, design process, and product system.
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Harder points to generative grammar as the most important offspring based on such intellectual foundations.
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He highlights its robust intellectual foundations, its wide practical application, its relative pluralism, its wide social support, and the weakness of its opponents.
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This is true, but in my opinion it would be a great mistake to let any part of the case for teaching grammar rest on such flimsy intellectual foundations.
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This creates a reluctance to engage with forms of contemporary criticality ' structured in the shadow of post-modern fracturing of the moral and intellectual foundations of modern knowledge formations ' (p. 94).
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The contrast between the two books under review provides an opportunity to examine the transformation in the intellectual foundations of social policy that has taken place over the past decades.
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Seldom has the passage of time so swiftly, effectively and comprehensively destroyed the intellectual foundations of the main plank of a party's defence policy.
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The intellectual foundations of the war policy are, therefore, rotten foundations.
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The intellectual foundations of his case have been destroyed.
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I should have no qualms if we were dealing with a matter which was unpopular but for which the intellectual foundations were right.
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The academic research that he had been conducting over the preceding 25 years provided the intellectual foundations for this third way.
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