Word

philosopher, n.
(philosophers)
freq. cnt. 16

a specialist in philosophy
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philosopher

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derivationally related form

philosophic philosophy

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domain of synset (topic)

philosophy

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hypernym

student, scholar, scholarly person, bookman

instance hyponym

Abelard, Peter Abelard, Pierre Abelard Anaxagoras Anaximander Anaximenes Arendt, Hannah Arendt Aristotle Averroes, ibn-Roshd, Abul-Walid Mohammed ibn-Ahmad Ibn-Mohammed ibn-Roshd Avicenna, ibn-Sina, Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina Bacon, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, 1st Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans Bentham, Jeremy Bentham Bergson, Henri Bergson, Henri Louis Bergson Berkeley, Bishop Berkeley, George Berkeley Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Bruno, Giordano Bruno Buber, Martin Buber Cassirer, Ernst Cassirer Cleanthes Comte, Auguste Comte, Isidore Auguste Marie Francois Comte Condorcet, Marquis de Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat Confucius, Kongfuze, K'ung Futzu, Kong the Master Democritus Derrida, Jacques Derrida Descartes, Rene Descartes Dewey, John Dewey Diderot, Denis Diderot Dietrich, Paul Heinrich Dietrich, Thiry, Paul-Henri Thiry, d'Holbach, baron d'Holbach Diogenes Empedocles Epictetus Epicurus Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Haeckel Hartley, David Hartley Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Heraclitus Herbart, Johann Friedrich Herbart Herder, Johann Gottfried von Herder Hobbes, Thomas Hobbes Hume, David Hume Husserl, Edmund Husserl Hypatia James, William James Kant, Immanuel Kant Kierkegaard, Soren Kierkegaard, Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Lao-tzu, Lao-tse, Lao-zi Leibniz, Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz Locke, John Locke Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus Lully, Raymond Lully, Ramon Lully Mach, Ernst Mach Machiavelli, Niccolo Machiavelli Maimonides, Moses Maimonides, Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon Malebranche, Nicolas de Malebranche Marcuse, Herbert Marcuse Marx, Karl Marx Mead, George Herbert Mead Mill, John Mill, John Stuart Mill Mill, James Mill Montesquieu, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat Moore, G. E. Moore, George Edward Moore Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Occam, William of Occam, Ockham, William of Ockham Origen Ortega y Gasset, Jose Ortega y Gasset Parmenides Pascal, Blaise Pascal Peirce, Charles Peirce, Charles Sanders Peirce Perry, Ralph Barton Perry Plato Plotinus Pythagoras Quine, W. V. Quine, Willard Van Orman Quine Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Reid, Thomas Reid Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau Russell, Bertrand Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell Schopenhauer, Arthur Schopenhauer Schweitzer, Albert Schweitzer Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Seneca Socrates Spencer, Herbert Spencer Spengler, Oswald Spengler Spinoza, de Spinoza, Baruch de Spinoza, Benedict de Spinoza Steiner, Rudolf Steiner Stewart, Dugald Stewart Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Sir Rabindranath Tagore Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Thales, Thales of Miletus Theophrastus Weil, Simone Weil Whitehead, Alfred North Whitehead Williams, Sir Bernard Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen Williams Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johan Wittgenstein Xenophanes Zeno, Zeno of Citium Zeno, Zeno of Elea

a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity
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philosopher

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derivationally related form

philosophic philosophical philosophy philosophy philosophy

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hypernym

person, individual, someone, soul, mortal, somebody