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Philosopher meaning
A lover of wisdom. | A student of philosophy. | A scholar or expert engaged in or contributing to philosophical inquiry.
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In addition, Mr Recorde not only refers to ancient Greek philosopher Plato but also to fellow Greek philosopher Proclus, so had access to Neoplatonic source material.
Hartshorne was deeply influenced by French philosopher Jules Lequier and by Swiss philosopher Charles Secrétan who were probably the first ones to claim that in God liberty of becoming is above his substantiality.
He then attended a Peripatetic philosopher but was put off because the philosopher was too eager for his fee.
The existential quantifier "there exists" expresses the idea that the claim "a is a philosopher and a is not a scholar" holds for some choice of a. The predicates "is a philosopher" and "is a scholar" each take a single variable.
To read a philosopher is no longer to aim at finding a single, correct interpretation, but is instead to present a philosopher's attempt to grapple with the problematic nature of reality.
Was Kant’s forehead shaped this way in these images because he was a philosopher, or, to follow the implications of Lavater’s system, was he a philosopher because of the intellectual acuity manifested by his forehead?
Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher, admonished leaders to spare no effort in protecting the polity and the 'kingship' institution.
Arrian, the most famous biographer of Alexander the Great, was a soldier, statesman, philosopher, and author.
As one might expect from Johnson, the project will not take the form of a standard biopic, rather capturing four chapters in the writer, philosopher, and activist’s life.
Because, as the Christian philosopher G.K. Chesterton observed, democracy is like writing love letters or blowing your nose.
But memory is the resource, and so it must be nurtured, tended like a garden for future harvest over decades—by a memoirist, a historian, an inventor, a philosopher.
Especially in her roles as the ballad crier in the circus performance and the snarky philosopher turning down Galileo’s scientific discoveries.
Fidesz has actively promoted a conservative intellectual culture, celebrating thinkers like the English philosopher Roger Scruton — a favorite of Margaret Thatcher — drawing in like-minded academics from around the world.
For a time, it looked like the philosopher-pope had succeeded in his herculean effort to renew moral theology.
Gilly assumed that the man was also a philosopher.
Greek philosopher Plutarch believed that truffles came about through a complicated combination of natural and spiritual processes.
He also sought to save room for philosophy — he calls himself “an accidental philosopher” in the essay — and to reform philosophy by turning it constructively in the direction of science toward human betterment.
Her series has been adapted into eight films, with the first film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, released in 2001.
I believe we are in what the philosopher Karl Popper would describe as the classical interregnum, at the moment.
In 1930, William Durant, an American Historian and Philosopher known for “The Story of Civilization”, visited India.