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inteˈllectualist
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
A devotee of the intellect or understanding; in Philos. one who holds that knowledge is wholly or mainly derived from the action of the intellect, i.e. from pure reason. Now freq. attrib. or as adj.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. v. §6 Upon these intellectualists, which are notwithstanding commonly taken for the most sublime and divine philosophers, Heraclitus gave a just censure, saying, Men sought truth in their own little worlds, and not in the great and common world. 1666Bp. S. Parker Platonick Philos. 59 These pure and Seraphick Intellectualists forsooth despise all sensible knowledge, as too gross and material for their nice and curious Faculties. 1802Ld. Campbell Let. Aug. in Life (1881) I. 92, I gain admission to the richest banquet ever served up to the longing intellectualist. 1831Fraser's Mag. III. 582 Mr. Godwin is an Intellectualist, and his reasoning is speculative, a mode of ratiocination which makes a man doubt. 1865Lecky Rationalism (1878) II. 318 The intellectualist and the art critic were replaced by men of saintly lives but of persecuting zeal. 1881Nation (N.Y.) XXXII. 791 The great quarrel between the Intellectualists and the Sensationalists in vision.
attrib.1857T. E. Webb Intellect. Locke iv. 71 The views which have influenced Locke's Intellectualist opponents from the time of Stillingfleet and Leibnitz to the present. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xxii. 325 The traditional intellectualist philosophy has always made a great point of treating the brutes as wholly irrational creatures. 1941J. S. Huxley Uniqueness of Man ii. 76 Men..of an intellectualist and academic type.
Hence inteˌllectuaˈlistic a., pertaining to intellectualists or intellectualism; inteˌllectuaˈlistically adv.
1887T. Whittaker in Mind July 455 What may be called spiritualistic or intellectualistic pantheism. 1890Athenæum 5 July 34/1 It became completely overshadowed by the intellectualistic-speculative. 1907W. James Pragmatism iii. 121 Yet dark tho they be in themselves [sc. the words God, free-will, etc.], or intellectualistically taken, when we bear them into life's thicket with us the darkness there grows light about us. 1909― Pluralistic Universe ii. 72 The substituted conceptions are treated intellectualistically, that is as mutually exclusive and discontinuous. 1927L. Stein A.B.C. of æsthetics i. 10 No one can get much good out of my book who reads it intellectualistically. |