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Thomas, who generally avoids intellectualist explanations, falls back on this.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The more intellectual nature trusts to an ethical theory; the more moral nature has an intellectualist morality.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Mee, Arthur

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 Santayana, George

May not the remedy lie rather in revising the intellectualist criticism than in first adopting it and then trying to undo its consequences by an arbitrary act of faith in an unintelligible agent.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William

In course of time, in fact, everybody would have to decide whether they preferred to be an intellectualist or a mystic.

From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by West, Julius