Philosopher synonyms

fĭ-lŏs'ə-fər

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logician
A person who studies or teaches logic.
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sage
A wise person or spiritual teacher; a man or woman of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher.
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savant
A person of learning; one who is versed in literature or science.
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thinker
An intellectual, such as a philosopher or theologian.
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wise-man
A magus or wizard, now especially one of the three biblical magi.
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ockham
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scholar (related)
A specialist in a given branch of knowledge:
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thoughts (related)
Plural form of thought
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alexander
(Person, proper) A masculine name: dim. Alec, Alex, Sandy; equiv. Fr. Alexandre, It. Alessandro, Russ. Aleksandr, Scot. Alistair, Sp. Alejandro; fem. Alexandra, Alexandrina
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solon
Athenian lawgiver and poet. His reforms preserved a class system based on wealth but ended privilege by birth.
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abelard
(Rare) A male given name.
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albinus
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anaxagoras
Greek philosopher who held that objects are made up of infinitesimal parts, each of which contains a mixture of every different type of matter.
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anselm
A male given name; quite rare in English.
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berkeley
Any of several places, including a city in California.
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boethius
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bonaventure
Italian theologian and philosopher who taught that the goal of all the arts and sciences is the direct contemplation of God.
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boodin
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bosanquet
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bowne
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bruno
A city in Minnesota
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chubb
(Slang) An erection.
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cicero
The Roman statesman and orator Mārcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC).
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condillac
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condorcet
French mathematician and philosopher known for his work on the mathematical theory of probability and for his philosophical study Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind (1795).
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croce
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euhemerus
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fechner
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feigl
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ferdinand
(Person, proper) A masculine name
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frege
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gilson
A patronymic surname​.
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haeckel
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hahn
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harris
An English and Welsh patronymic surname derived from Harry, the medieval form of Henry.
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hartmann
A surname​.
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hegel
A German surname​, notably borne by the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
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heidegger
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heraclitus
An Ancient Greek male given name, notably borne by Heraclitus of Ephesus, a pre-Socratic Ionian philosopher
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herbart
A German surname​, notably borne by the German philosopher and educator Johann Friedrich Herbart.
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hobbes
A patronymic surname​.
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howison
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hume
A Scottish habitational surname from Home in Berwickshire.
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husserl
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hutcheson
A patronymic surname​.
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langer
A surname​.
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leibniz
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leucippus
A taxonomic genus within the family Trochilidae.
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locke
Archaic spelling of lock.
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lotze
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lovejoy
A surname​.
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lucretius
Roman philosopher and poet. His long poem On the Nature of Things expounds the atomistic physics of Epicurus in order to free its readers of superstition and the fear of death.
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marx
Family of American comedians, including the brothers Leonard (1887–1961), known as “Chico”; Arthur (1888–1964), known as “Harpo”; Julius (1890–1977), known as “Groucho”; Milton (1892–1977), known as “Gummo”; and Herbert (1901–1979), known as “Zeppo.” Some of their many popular Broadway shows were made into movies, including Horse Feathers (1932) and Duck Soup (1933).
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mencius
Chinese Confucian philosopher who taught that people are innately good and that one's nature can be enhanced or perverted by one's environment.
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moore
Many toponymic place names, or parts of place names, derived from moor.
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paley
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parmenides
Greek philosopher and a founder of the Eleatic tradition.
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pascal
A programming language designed to support structured programming and used in teaching, applications, and systems programming.
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perry
A village in Illinois.
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philo-
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plotinus
Egyptian-born Roman philosopher who founded Neo-Platonism. His writings are collected in The Enneads.
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pratt
Alternative spelling of prat.
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protagoras
Greek philosopher. Considered the first Sophist, he taught a philosophy based on his maxim “Man is the measure of all things.”
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pyrrho
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pythagoras
Greek philosopher who founded a school in southern Italy that sought to discover the mathematical principles of reality through the study of musical harmony and geometry. The Pythagorean theorem is ascribed to him.
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reid
A surname​.
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reynaud
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rogers
A town in Arkansas, and other U.S. places named for bearers of the surname.
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ross
(Proper, person) Masculine name
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royce
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russell
(Person, proper) A masculine name: dim. Russ; var. Russel
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santayana
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sartre
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scheler
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schelling
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schiller
A peculiar bronzelike luster in certain minerals, often iridescent, caused by the diffraction of light in embedded crystals
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schleiermacher
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schlick
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sellars
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thales
Greek philosopher who is traditionally considered the first Western philosopher and a founder of geometry and abstract astronomy. He maintained that matter is composed of water.
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theologian (related)
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mathematician (related)
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sociologist (related)
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theorist (related)
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historian (related)
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rationalist (related)
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classicist (related)
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moralist (related)
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philologist (related)
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nietzsche (related)
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literary critic (related)
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orientalist (related)
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theoretician (related)
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sophist
In ancient Greece, any of a group of teachers of rhetoric, politics, philosophy, etc., some of whom were notorious for their clever, specious arguments
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haldane
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pritchard
A surname​.
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logicaster
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metaphysician
A person who specializes or is versed in metaphysics
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philosophizer
A person who creates superficial arguments or offers meaningless solutions, instead of practical ones.
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ratiocinator
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syllogizer
One who syllogizes.
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theorizer
One who forms a theory.
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fullerton
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  • Even Pumpkin Green, the trekking philosopher, tossed in his two cents.

  • It would have suggested many things to a philosopher to have dealings with him.

  • To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

  • Mr Bentham received me with the simplicity of a philosopher.

  • It was the birthplace of the philosopher Anaxagoras.

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