The teacher creates a classroom community in which diversity of thought is valued and in which the students explore ideas by engaging in intellectual endeavors together. (reallearningct.com)
As well, he sets out the areas of human intellectual endeavor by which «importance» leads to civilization. (religion-online.org)
According to Rorty, philosophers have hoped to find a way of securing an absolute fit between our knowledge of the world and the world itself, to show that in at least one area of intellectual endeavor human knowledge really does «mirror» reality. (firstthings.com)