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To: nickcarraway

Gee, I thought an intellectual was a person, who’s trade is, the examination of ideas, (at the least). I will stand corrected if a better explanation is presented, notwithstanding.

An intellectual, therefor should include those who are not usually included; the lumpen masses, lets just say it includes a lot of people who are excluded from the list of “elite intellectuals “ they are just the ordinary thinking sacred human being, and because they are untrained by a university, these very intellectual people are not considered serious, so I will not put too fine a point on that argument. [the-they], are certainly not anti-intellectual, they may be actually more ponderous of real life circumstances than the imagined life of a professional intellectual, [the-they], are certainly more interesting than the intense poseur, that you might chat with on the campus of Brown University, or Harvard. I’m thinking more of the people referred to in the commercial Richards Group Scores With Paul Harvey Ram Truck Commercial During Super Bowl

A critical debate involves the rigors of truth as determined by rational, logical participants, who acknowledge the premise that there is a truth to be discovered. “ideas” , the kernel of the intellectual inquiry is accessible to almost everyone, even those who are not approved to think for themselves. Furthermore, Ideas are the intuitions reified through the algebra of language, experience and tested within (language games), they are not facile proclamations made by the ministry of truth.

And certainly not the province of a princely class of mandarins living in sequestered towers at Harvard University.


35 posted on 03/01/2013 4:46:56 PM PST by notted
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To: notted

Richards Group Scores With Paul Harvey Ram Truck Commercial During Super Bowl

that was supposed to be a link to the commercial. dang computers.


36 posted on 03/01/2013 4:52:41 PM PST by notted
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