philosopher

[fəˈlɑːsəfər]

Definition:
1. A specialist in philosophy.
2. A wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity.

Use 'philosopher' in a sentence:

1. The individual who promoted this idea was a Stoic philosopher.
2. Now, as to what kinds of knowledge claims are foundational, well, that's where this gets particularly interesting, in fact it sort of depends on which philosopher you ask.
3. As the Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu is reported to have said: "Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness."
4. The very first reading that you're going to be doing is a couple of pages from Jay Rosenberg, a contemporary philosopher.
5. Many philosophers have discussed the nature of human.
6. In English, this great philosopher is called Confucius.
7. Philosophers sometimes overweight their negativism.
8. In this chapter we'll review several philosophers of the20th century.
9. Parallel program model and verification on a solution of dining philosopher problem.
10. Marxist Life World Concept based on practice and Interactive Subject Theory of modern philosophers;
11. He seems to be a bit of a philosopher.
12. There's Benjamin Franklin, the very model of the self-educated, self-made man, who rose from modest origins to become a well-known scientist, philosopher, and statesman.
13. Carlos was something of a philosopher.
14. Instead, I agree with Oxford University philosopher Nick Bostrom, who believes that the heaviest risks from AGI do not come from a decision to turn against mankind but rather from a dogged pursuit of set objectives at the expense of everything else.
15. The wisdom of the ancient Greek philosophers is timeless, says Soupios.
16. That is to say, the ultimate philosopher.
17. By all means marry, if you get a good wife, you'll be happy, if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
18. The philosopher was still political dynamite.
19. Philosophers Should Concern with Actual Economic problems.
20. The speech act theory was first proposed by British philosopher Austin.
21. Why did the late philosopher Richard Wollheim spend four hours before a picture?
22. He was also a famous philosopher whose wise sayings have influenced many people in different countries.
23. "While we teach, we learn," said Roman philosopher Seneca.
24. In a 1757 essay, the philosopher David Hume argued that because "the general principles of taste are uniform in human nature," the value of some works of art might be essentially permanent.
25. We've had Lincoln as manic-depressive, the business sage, and the stoic philosopher.
26. Early fifth-century philosopher St. Augustine famously wrote that he knew what time was unless someone asked him.
27. It taught him how to think independently and abstractly about space and time, and it wasn't long before he became a philosopher himself.
28. But for the philosopher this is never enough.
29. In a 1757 essay, the philosopher David Hume argued that because "the general principles of taste are uniform in human nature", the value of some works of art might be essentially permanent.
30. One famous philosopher, Kong Zi, lived and worked in China from 551 BC to 479 BC.
31. The answer is yes, according to a new book The 10 Golden Rules: Ancient Wisdom from the Greek Philosophers on Living a Good Life.
32. He was a philosopher till his death last year.
33. Different philosophers proposed different views on knowledge.
34. While we teach, we learn, said Roman philosopher Seneca.
35. The maker philosophy echoes old ideas advocated by John Dewey, Montessori, and even ancient Greek philosophers, as we pointed out recently.
36. The doctor who is also a poet and philosopher is a superior doctor, one who can give so much more to his patients than just good medical skills.
37. Technology like this is now changing the face of robotics, says philosopher Ron Chrisley, director of the Centre for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex in England.
38. The idea has been given short shrift by philosophers.
39. He's the philosopher who wrote about where our ideas of beauty come from.
40. The philosopher, Plato, talks about this in the context of education.
41. In his 1940 guide How to Read a Book, American philosopher Mortimer J. Adler talked about the importance of choosing books that other authors consider worth reading.
42. The conversations between the two philosophers were too deep for me.
43. Ancient philosophers paid attention to the exploration of human ego.
44. Philosophers of Confucianism in ancient China influenced the development of ethics.
45. He is a famous Stoic philosopher.
46. Her friend Saul Bellow wrote in a letter that Marilyn conducts herself like a philosopher.
47. Ancient Chinese Philosophers' Viewpoints on the Relationship Between the Individual and the Group.
48. He was also an economist and political philosopher.
49. This belief began with Laozi, the ancient philosopher and founder of Taoism who lived around 2,500 years ago.
50. In the end, credibility "happens" to a discovery claim—a process that corresponds to what philosopher Annette Baier has described as the commons of the mind.
51. Philosophers have an avidity to know how we perceive objects.
52. He must have come to know those philosophers through secondary or tertiary sources.
53. The college boasts alumni like author Jonathan Swift and philosopher George Berkeley, the namesake of what is now the University of California—Berkeley.
54. I once had the privilege of meeting the late philosopher CLR James.
55. This text illuminates the philosopher's early thinking.
56. A philosopher once said, 'Be careful what you wish for; you might get it.'
57. Philosophers did not use to make a distinction between arts and science.