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单词 philosopher
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Definition of philosopher in English:

philosopher

noun fɪˈlɒsəfəfəˈlɑsəfər
  • A person engaged or learned in philosophy, especially as an academic discipline.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • So philosophers take the risk of nihilism and existential dread because the allure of wonder is too great.
    • Some philosophers say they do not know what the thesis of determinism is.
    • Spinoza the philosopher emerged in his true colours through the work of Schelling and Hegel.
    • The primary source is what scientists and philosophers have said about scientific method.
    • It seems to me that philosophers are often criticized for always demanding rational explanations.
    • Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers.
    • German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer was one of history's great pessimists.
    • Conferences of philosophers on determinism and freedom aren't the same as they used to be.
    • I need to brace myself before I throw myself at the modern continental philosophers.
    • As is the hallowed custom with philosophers, the thinking of all of them is by nature unhistorical.
    • Descartes, of course, was not the first philosopher to view the body with disdain.
    • The philosopher Hannah Arendt concluded that evil lay in the refusal to think.
    • The noun Dasein is used by other philosophers, by Kant for example, for the existence of any entity.
    • Zeno was a pupil and friend of the philosopher Parmenides and studied with him in Elea.
    • Plato has a claim to be the first philosopher to establish philosophy as a subject.
    • Some philosophers contend that death is a harm inasmuch as it thwarts a central desire: to stay alive.
    • Do any of you know of any philosophers that seem to be more or less Buddhist in outlook?
    • Some of them tried to replace religion by a secular morality that owed much to the German philosopher Kant.
    • Some philosophers will find implausible the claim that contextualism is the cure for relativism.
    • So far as we know, Socrates was the first philosopher to make prominent the question of how to live well.
    Synonyms
    thinker, theorist, theorizer, theoretician, philosophizer, metaphysicist, metaphysician, epistemologist, dialectician, logician
    speculator, hypothesizer, seeker after truth, dreamer
    scholar, intellect, intellectual, learned person, sage, wise man, Solomon, guru, pundit

Origin

Middle English: from a variant of Old French philosophe, via Latin from Greek philosophos 'lover of wisdom', from philein 'to love' + sophos 'wise'.

  • philately from mid 19th century:

    This is one of the few words whose origin can be pinned down precisely. A Monsieur Herpin, a keen stamp collector, proposed the French word philatélie in the 15 November 1864, issue of Le Collectionneur de Timbres-poste (‘The Stamp Collector’). He formed it from Greek philo- ‘loving’ and ateleia ‘exemption from payment’, as a stamp shows that the price for delivery has already been paid. British stamp collectors quickly anglicized the French word to philately, which is recorded in an enthusiasts' magazine in December 1865. M. Herpin's use of philo- followed a well-established tradition in word formation, found in words such as philanthropy (early 17th century) from philo- and anthropos ‘human being’ (also found in anthropology (late 16th century), the study of mankind); philosopher (Middle English) combined with sophos ‘wisdom’ (see further at sophisticated), and anglophile (mid 19th century).

Rhymes

theosopher
 
 

Definition of philosopher in US English:

philosopher

nounfəˈlɑsəfərfəˈläsəfər
  • A person engaged or learned in philosophy, especially as an academic discipline.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • So far as we know, Socrates was the first philosopher to make prominent the question of how to live well.
    • Some philosophers will find implausible the claim that contextualism is the cure for relativism.
    • Some philosophers say they do not know what the thesis of determinism is.
    • Plato has a claim to be the first philosopher to establish philosophy as a subject.
    • Some of them tried to replace religion by a secular morality that owed much to the German philosopher Kant.
    • So philosophers take the risk of nihilism and existential dread because the allure of wonder is too great.
    • The philosopher Hannah Arendt concluded that evil lay in the refusal to think.
    • It seems to me that philosophers are often criticized for always demanding rational explanations.
    • German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer was one of history's great pessimists.
    • Spinoza the philosopher emerged in his true colours through the work of Schelling and Hegel.
    • As is the hallowed custom with philosophers, the thinking of all of them is by nature unhistorical.
    • Conferences of philosophers on determinism and freedom aren't the same as they used to be.
    • The primary source is what scientists and philosophers have said about scientific method.
    • Do any of you know of any philosophers that seem to be more or less Buddhist in outlook?
    • Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers.
    • Zeno was a pupil and friend of the philosopher Parmenides and studied with him in Elea.
    • The noun Dasein is used by other philosophers, by Kant for example, for the existence of any entity.
    • Some philosophers contend that death is a harm inasmuch as it thwarts a central desire: to stay alive.
    • I need to brace myself before I throw myself at the modern continental philosophers.
    • Descartes, of course, was not the first philosopher to view the body with disdain.
    Synonyms
    thinker, theorist, theorizer, theoretician, philosophizer, metaphysicist, metaphysician, epistemologist, dialectician, logician

Origin

Middle English: from a variant of Old French philosophe, via Latin from Greek philosophos ‘lover of wisdom’, from philein ‘to love’ + sophos ‘wise’.

 
 
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