Like Julian Barnes, though with infinitely greater success, he has used the form of the novel as a shell for intellectual speculation of one kind or another.

This is linked in her book to schools of intellectual speculation, both medieval and modern, of a kind that will be further discussed later in this chapter.

The mind may cross the event horizon in theory, using intellectual speculation and advanced mathematics, but this is like Alice jumping down the rabbit hole.

Toland's world was not all detached intellectual speculation, though.

This is a familiar wish with Grossman, for whom the requirements of intellectual speculation and narrative momentum often clash.

This physiological engagement with the world operates in a more immediate sense than the summary events of applied meaning or intellectual speculation.

He felt keenly conscious of how barren all intellectual speculation is when separated from action and experiment.

I wanted to visit with Master Santaraksita for a while and lose myself, perhaps, in an interplay of intellectual speculation.

What had been only an intellectual speculation before was now reality; Thistledown was preparing for its death.

The 140 specially commissioned essays cover a considerable spectrum of intellectual speculation, from "Aesthetics" to "Zionism."