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Definition of Intellectualism
1. n. Intellectual power; intellectuality.
Definition of Intellectualism
1. Noun. The use or development of the intellect. ¹
2. Noun. The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Intellectualism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intellectualism
Literary usage of Intellectualism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The æsthetic Attitude by Herbert Sidney Langfeld (1920)
"intellectualism VERSUS EMOTIONALISM The intellectual side of ... There is involved
in this objection the old conflict between intellectualism and that form ..."
2. Epistemology; Or, The Theory of Knowledge: An Introduction to General by Peter Coffey (1917)
"But the "classic intellectualism" according to which certitude is caused only by
... It is rather the type of intellectualism revealed in the excessively ..."
3. Present Philosophical Tendencies: A Critical Survey of Naturalism, Idealism by Ralph Barton Perry (1912)
"This is what James calls "vicious" intellectualism or abstractionism. ... l In
other words, "vicious intellectualism" proceeds as though a conceptual truth ..."
4. Philosophy and Civilization in the Middle Ages by Maurice Wulf (1922)
"CHAPTER EIGHT intellectualism i. intellectualism in ideology, ii. ... intellectualism
is a doctrine which places all the nobility, all the intensity, ..."
5. The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry (1905)
"intellectualism and voluntarism are the two rival possibilities of emphasis when
... intellectualism would make will merely the concluding phase of thought, ..."
6. Applied Sociology: A Treatise on the Conscious Improvement of Society by Society by Lester Frank Ward (1906)
"As the antithesis of this the other has been called " historical intellectualism."l The
proper name for the first is " the economic interpretation of ..."
7. Introduction to Philosophy by Wilhelm Jerusalem (1910)
"intellectualism Philosophy was led to regard the senses as unreliable sources of
... This is the reason why intellectualism arose at such an early date. ..."
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