azzaman333
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Do You Consider Yourself to be an Intellectual?
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Don't say I didn't warn you.
Sui Generis
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More like Revolution of the Intellectuals. After Lenin died, Marxist-Leninism became a secular religion in the Soviet Union.
That does those effects too, not just posing? I didn't realize that that was within the capabilities of the Source engine at all. Good stuff.
MagisterCultuum
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These definitions of Intellectual seem rather arbitrary. What do you mean by "creates knowledge," and why would one need to become a "full time philosopher" in order to do that?
The distinction between adjective or noun is a fairly recent one that still doesn't exist in many languages.
Fro an etymological standpoint, I'd say that intellectual means "pertaining to reading between the lines."
The distinction between adjective or noun is a fairly recent one that still doesn't exist in many languages.
Fro an etymological standpoint, I'd say that intellectual means "pertaining to reading between the lines."
While I'm a damned sight smarter than most of the folks around here, I'm certainly not some pointy egg headed intellectual.
Why on earth would you denigrate yourself like that?
Does it really matter?
Why on earth would you denigrate yourself like that?
Fixed, since two of them are dead.
Does it really matter?
Bigfoot3814
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I am so far away from being an intellectual.
azzaman333
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MobBoss
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All I will say is that him claiming himself to be an intellectual sparked a huge fireball of a thread in which he got jumped on six ways to Sunday. It was awesome.
Narz
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No, not at all. I'm a man of the people.
RedRalph
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Can you dig it out? I dont remember that but it sounds funny...
I voted yes because I think I'm some sort of aspirational intellectual, since I'd like a career in academia if I can make it happen. After reading the thread I think take a broader view of what constitutes an "intellectual" compared to some people who're treating it as some elite god-level thing. I'd never really thought about it, but I guess I just think of people who work in academia or similar fields, or read a lot.
I'm clever, but not really an intellectual. There are very few 20 year old intellectuals.
MobBoss
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Just do a search for it using sidhe and maybe intellectual as tags.
Someone who creates knowledge is someone who does things like research or scholarly papers. Essentially most academia, but not all of it, and can include things out of academia itself like some authors, who supply usable philosophies for the general public. It's a matter of creating ideas. My point with the "full-time philosopher" thing is that it's not a class that amateurs are a part of.
That's because the concept of an Intellectual is rather new. The word was born out of the french intellectual movement in the 1800s - people of the pen who influenced politics. See the Dreyfus Affair.
Words arn't defined by their etymology. Not even remotely. Semantic shift.
Dawkins may be a douchebag, but that has nothing to do with the fact that he's still an intellectual, being both a research scientist and a public intellectual who speaks about various issues of social or political import. Besides, don't you know how douchebaggy Voltaire was? Being a polemicist in intellectual matters is a fine example of what an Intellectual is.VRWCAgent said:
Onionsoilder
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Pertaining to the definition as someone who creates knowledge, then no.
If you mean someone who is very smart, then yes.
If you mean someone who is very smart, then yes.
Narz
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Anyone can create knowledge. Even Charlie figured out a better way to rearrange the machines. Til he fergot it all.
Shekwan
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I can't believe the poll results. The people here must have a very loose definition of the word "intellectual" or they have some seriously inflated egos.
Intellectuals publish books and give speeches at Universities and the like. Just being intelligent does not make you an intellectual. I agree with Bill when he said on page one that it's somebody who creates knowledge, not simply accumulates it.
Intellectuals publish books and give speeches at Universities and the like. Just being intelligent does not make you an intellectual. I agree with Bill when he said on page one that it's somebody who creates knowledge, not simply accumulates it.
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No. But I do think I'm more of an intellectual than almost anyone else around my age that I know in real life.
I define intellectual as someone who is very cultured, has had many contacts with many kinds of ideas around the world and actually does something to improve the knowledge that he has (e.g. research, write professionally, etc).
I define intellectual as someone who is very cultured, has had many contacts with many kinds of ideas around the world and actually does something to improve the knowledge that he has (e.g. research, write professionally, etc).
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No. But I do think I'm more of an intellectual than almost anyone else around my age that I know in real life.
I define intellectual as someone who is very cultured, has had many contacts with many kinds of ideas around the world and actually does something to improve the knowledge that he has (e.g. research, write professionally, etc).
you are only saying that so miners dont beat you up for having a beard
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