intellectualism
noun
devotion to intellectual pursuits.
intellectualist
-
a word derived from
intellectualism.
Example Sentences
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Thomas, who generally avoids intellectualist explanations, falls back on this.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
The intellectualist theory is more vast than Herbartism; it exists in all doctrines in which the characteristic difference between thought and feeling is expunged and feeling is brought back to thought.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
You remember my own intellectualist difficulties in the last lecture, about how a lot of separate consciousnesses can at the same time be one collective thing.
From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by William James
Bradley holds to the intellectualist logic, and by dint of it convicts the human universe of being irrationality incarnate.
From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by William James
Yet these are not the pragmata of the pragmatist, for it is only the despicable intellectualist that can arrive at them; and the bed-rock of facts that the pragmatist builds upon is avowedly drifting sand.
From Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion by George Santayana
