Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Exercise or application of the intellect.
- noun Devotion to exercise or development of the intellect.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Exercise of intellectuality; devotion to intellectual occupation or thought.
- noun Belief in the supremacy of the intellect; the doctrine that all knowledge is derived from pure reason.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Intellectual power; intellectuality.
- noun The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason.
- noun Preference for activities involving exercise of the intellect
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The use or development of the
intellect . - noun The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Quite logically the new spirit is in revolt against what it calls intellectualism, which means the application of the dry light of reason to the problems of human life.
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No real activities and indeed no real connexions of any kind can obtain if we follow the conceptual logic; for to be distinguishable, according to what I call intellectualism, is to be incapable of connexion.
A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876
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The guy may like to posture as a possible martyr to left-wing orthodoxy in the academy, but posturing, and pandering to anti-intellectualism, is all he's doing.
Liquidity Trap or Statism Trap?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Your statement about anti-intellectualism is right on the money.
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I just see this strong surge of anti-intellectualism from the right and I remember Palin tried to fire a librarian because the woman refused to remove books that were considered offensive … you hear them railing against colleges, scientists and academia in general.
Think Progress » White House Signals That It Will Fight Back Against GOP Abuse Of Filibuster 2010
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Your statement about anti-intellectualism is right on the money.
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But I'm afraid that won't have any effect on an unhinged base for whom anti-intellectualism is a virtue.
CNN Poll: President's approval on health care under 50 percent 2009
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Since populism dictates that the elite are evil, intellectualism is inherently evil and should be opposed at all costs. for evidence see evolution deniers, climate change deniers, vaccine lawsuits, etc ...
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Anti-intellectualism is a winning political card in the US (Rush Limbaugh, anyone?), although Stephen Harper, who has tried to import that approach most recently in the case of Michael Ignatieff, is finding it a tougher sell here, other than in the backwoods where his base howls and prowls.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Since populism dictates that the elite are evil, intellectualism is inherently evil and should be opposed at all costs. for evidence see evolution deniers, climate change deniers, vaccine lawsuits, etc ...
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