Does that piece of common sense really need an intellectual foundation?

But it offers an intellectual foundation upon which liberals can build.

The academic research that he had been conducting over the preceding 25 years provided the intellectual foundations for this "third way".

"Revelation replaced investigation," he said, and the intellectual foundation collapsed.

There is even an intellectual foundation for the dismay.

However, some intellectual foundations of futures studies appeared in the mid-19th century.

Warren claims to have "created much of the intellectual foundation" for Occupy movement.

But you must survive, for I have made certain that within your brain are the moral and intellectual foundations of our race.

But neoconservatives laid the intellectual foundation for the war, and they attained influence within the Bush administration.

This was the intellectual foundation of the field they called the social construction of technology.