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Philosopher

One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to, philosophy.

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Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Doer 76% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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Scholar 76% connected

One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Cynic 76% connected

Alt. of Cynical

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Eclectic 76% connected

Selecting; choosing (what is true or excellent in doctrines, opinions, etc.) from various sources or systems; as, an eclectic philosopher.

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Empiricist 76% connected

An empiric.

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Ethicist 76% connected

One who is versed in ethics, or has written on ethics.

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Gymnosophist 76% connected

One of a sect of philosophers, said to have been found in India by Alexander the Great, who went almost naked, denied themselves the use of flesh, re…

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Libertarian 76% connected

Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.

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Mechanist 76% connected

A maker of machines; one skilled in mechanics.

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Moralist 76% connected

One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties.

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Nativist 76% connected

An advocate of nativism.

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Naturalist 76% connected

One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals.

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Necessitarian 76% connected

Of or pertaining to the doctrine of philosophical necessity in regard to the origin and existence of things, especially as applied to the actings or…

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Nominalist 76% connected

One of a sect of philosophers in the Middle Ages, who adopted the opinion of Roscelin, that general conceptions, or universals, exist in name only.

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Pluralist 76% connected

A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.

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Popper 76% connected

A utensil for popping corn, usually a wire basket with a long handle.

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Realist 76% connected

One who believes in realism; esp., one who maintains that generals, or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things, represent real exis…

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Scholastic 76% connected

Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.

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Sophist 76% connected

One of a class of men who taught eloquence, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece; especially, one of those who, by their fallacious but plausib…

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Stoic 76% connected

A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit w…

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Transcendentalist 76% connected

One who believes in transcendentalism.

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Yogi 76% connected

A follower of the yoga philosophy; an ascetic.

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Philosophical 74% connected

Of or pertaining to philosophy; versed in, or imbued with, the principles of philosophy; hence, characterizing a philosopher; rational; wise; tempera…

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Philosophical 74% connected

Of or pertaining to philosophy; versed in, or imbued with, the principles of philosophy; hence, characterizing a philosopher; rational; wise; tempera…

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Philosophy 74% connected

Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes an…

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Philosophy 74% connected

Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes an…

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