The best traders don't try to hide from these unknown variables by pretending they don't exist, nor do they try to intellectualize or rationalize them away through market analysis.
While few craftsmen or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed, it is obvious that their views were less fully intellectualized.
I think you can intellectualize the experience of living and working in microgravity, but until you experience it, you don't really know what it's going to be like.
I think by intellectualizing marriage and monogamy as some kind of simply unnatural state and marriage as a social construct that benefits society by increasing generational wealth.
Everyone is just sort of intellectualizing what is like Trump's sort of lizard brain 1980s idea of what tariffs are for done in as stupid a way as possible.
And what's happening is that they realize in an instant, without maybe intellectualizing it this exact way, but they desperately missed this person, but they didn't know they missed him.
You can intellectualize the question, and then you have to, as Barb was saying— Oh, that's also got to be radically demoralizing, especially to the good people who aren't involved in this sort of thing.