Philosopher synonyms
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In ancient Greece, any of a group of teachers of rhetoric, politics, philosophy, etc., some of whom were notorious for their clever, specious arguments
solon
Athenian lawgiver and poet. His reforms preserved a class system based on wealth but ended privilege by birth.
scholar (related)
A specialist in a given branch of knowledge:
An intellectual, such as a philosopher or theologian.
thoughts (related)
Plural form of thought
(Rare) A male given name.
albinus
(Person, proper) A masculine name: dim. Alec, Alex, Sandy; equiv. Fr. Alexandre, It. Alessandro, Russ. Aleksandr, Scot. Alistair, Sp. Alejandro; fem. Alexandra, Alexandrina
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.
anselm
A male given name; quite rare in English.
berkeley
Any of several places, including a city in California.
boethius
bonaventure
Italian theologian and philosopher who taught that the goal of all the arts and sciences is the direct contemplation of God.
boodin
bosanquet
bowne
chubb
(Slang) An erection.
condillac
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).
croce
euhemerus
fechner
feigl
(Person, proper) A masculine name
frege
fullerton
gilson
A patronymic surname.
haeckel
hahn
hartmann
A surname.
hegel
A German surname, notably borne by the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
heidegger
heraclitus
An Ancient Greek male given name, notably borne by Heraclitus of Ephesus, a pre-Socratic Ionian philosopher
herbart
A German surname, notably borne by the German philosopher and educator Johann Friedrich Herbart.
hobbes
A patronymic surname.
howison
hume
A Scottish habitational surname from Home in Berwickshire.
husserl
hutcheson
A patronymic surname.
kierkegaard
langer
A surname.
leucippus
A taxonomic genus within the family Trochilidae.
locke
Archaic spelling of lock.
lotze
lovejoy
A surname.
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.
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).
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.
paley
parmenides
Greek philosopher and a founder of the Eleatic tradition.
pascal
A programming language designed to support structured programming and used in teaching, applications, and systems programming.
philo-
plotinus
Egyptian-born Roman philosopher who founded Neo-Platonism. His writings are collected in The Enneads.
pratt
Alternative spelling of prat.
pritchard
A surname.
protagoras
Greek philosopher. Considered the first Sophist, he taught a philosophy based on his maxim “Man is the measure of all things.”
pyrrho
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.
reid
A surname.
reynaud
(Proper, person) Masculine name
royce
(Person, proper) A masculine name: dim. Russ; var. Russel
santayana
sartre
scheler
schelling
schiller
A peculiar bronzelike luster in certain minerals, often iridescent, caused by the diffraction of light in embedded crystals
schleiermacher
schlick
schopenhauer
sellars
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.
logicaster
metaphysician
A person who specializes or is versed in metaphysics
philosophizer
A person who creates superficial arguments or offers meaningless solutions, instead of practical ones.
ratiocinator
syllogizer
One who syllogizes.
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