What does the term Intellectual discourse mean? And how is it applied?

Question

What does the term Intellectual discourse mean? And how is it applied?

Answer 1

Intellectual: relating to thought process: relating to or involving the mental processes of abstract thinking and reasoning rather than the emotions

Discourse: serious speech or piece of writing: a serious and lengthy speech or piece of writing about a topic.

One example would be That essay was intellectual discourse.

Answer 2

Discourse means debate / discussion etc, so it literally means "A clever conversation".