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Definitions of intelectual
  1. noun
    a person who uses the mind creatively
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    Aristóteles
    one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers; pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC)
    Francis Bacon
    English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)
    George Berkeley
    Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop who opposed the materialism of Thomas Hobbes (1685-1753)
    John Calvin
    Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564)
    K'ung Fu-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death and became the basis of a philosophical doctrine known a Confucianism (circa 551-478 BC)
    Rene Descartes
    French philosopher and mathematician; developed dualistic theory of mind and matter; introduced the use of coordinates to locate a point in two or three dimensions (1596-1650)
    John Dewey
    United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952)
    Epicuro
    Greek philosopher who believed that the world is a random combination of atoms and that pleasure is the highest good (341-270 BC)
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe; although his criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church led to the Reformation, he opposed violence and condemned Martin Luther (1466-1536)
    Gregorio XIII
    (Roman Catholic Church) an Italian pope distinguished for his spiritual and temporal leadership; a saint and Doctor of the Church (540?-604)
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    German philosopher whose three stage process of dialectical reasoning was adopted by Karl Marx (1770-1831)
    William James
    United States pragmatic philosopher and psychologist (1842-1910)
    Immanuel Kant
    influential German idealist philosopher (1724-1804)
    Lao-Tse
    Chinese philosopher regarded as the founder of Taoism (6th century BC)
    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
    German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716)
    John Locke
    English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704)
    Martin Luther
    German theologian who led the Reformation; believed that salvation is granted on the basis of faith rather than deeds (1483-1546)
    Maquiavelo
    a statesman of Florence who advocated a strong central government (1469-1527)
    Erwin Panofsky
    art historian (1892-1968)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662)
    Charles Franklin Peirce
    United States philosopher and logician; pioneer of pragmatism (1839-1914)
    Platón
    ancient Athenian philosopher; pupil of Socrates; teacher of Aristotle (428-347 BC)
    Pitágoras
    Greek philosopher and mathematician who proved the Pythagorean theorem; considered to be the first true mathematician (circa 580-500 BC)
    Quine
    United States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001)
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland; believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society; ideas influenced the French Revolution (1712-1778)
    Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Whitehead (1872-1970)
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    Roman statesman and philosopher who was an advisor to Nero; his nine extant tragedies are modeled on Greek tragedies (circa 4 BC - 65 AD)
    Sócrates
    ancient Athenian philosopher; teacher of Plato and Xenophon (470-399 BC)
    Wittgenstein
    British philosopher born in Austria; a major influence on logic and logical positivism (1889-1951)
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    alquimista
    one who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone
    cerebro, genio
    someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
    mentor
    a wise and trusted guide and advisor
    estudiante
    a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
    escéptico, incrédulo
    someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs
    subjetivista
    a person who subscribes to subjectivism
    teorizante, teórico
    someone who theorizes (especially in science or art)
    pensador
    an important intellectual
    iluminado, visionario, zahorí
    a person with unusual powers of foresight
    académico
    a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation
    diplomado, graduado, titulado
    a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)
    arabista
    a scholar who specializes in Arab languages and culture
    bibliógrafo
    someone trained in compiling bibliographies
    bibliófilo
    someone who loves (and usually collects) books
    clasificador
    a person who creates classifications
    adivinador
    someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers
    doctor
    a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution
    futurista
    someone who predicts the future
    pronosticador, vaticinador, vidente
    someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge)
    historiador, historiógrafo
    a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it
    humanista
    a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts
    erudito, sabio
    someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
    licenciado
    holds a license (degree) from a (European) university
    organizador
    a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise
    escolástico, pedante
    a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
    pesimista
    a person who expects the worst
    filósofo
    a specialist in philosophy
    fénix, maravilla, monstruo, portento, prodigio
    an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration
    lector
    a person who enjoys reading
    razonador
    someone who reasons logically
    gurú
    a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom
    escolástico
    a scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages; versed in scholasticism
    sinólogo
    a student of Chinese history and language and culture
    especulador
    someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts
    teólogo
    someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology
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