Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A philosopher; especially, a would-be philosopher.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A pretender in philosophy.

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  • noun One who pretends to be a philosopher.

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Examples

  • To a philosophist it can sound like a thread of thought running in the society.

    We are blessed that we had an Aurobindo Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • Lucian gives an account of one Peregrinus, a philosophist very famous in his time, who had a great number of disciples.

    The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old George Bethune English 1807

  • Russ J. Alan is a political philosophist and writer.

    RenewAmerica 2009

  • Russ J. Alan is a political philosophist and writer.

    RenewAmerica 2009

  • _philosophist_ party of the last century, able to dissolve anything by reason and reasoning, but unable to construct anything; for construction rests upon feeling, instinct, and will.

    Amiel's Journal Henri Fr��d��ric Amiel 1885

  • Nidhi), philosophist Mani Dravida Shastri (Shastra Nidhi) and musician and veena player R. Vishweshwaran (Nada Nidhi), while Bangalore-based advocate C.N. Ramaswamy Shastry was conferred the Datta Bandhu award for his involvement in social service activities.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

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