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philosopher

[fi-los-uh-fer] / fɪˈlɒs ə fər /
NOUN
deep thinker
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In his program note, Sharon quotes the doom-laden philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer as an inspiration for Wagner’s nothing-is-real masterpiece.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Jospin, who has two children with his first wife, also remarried that year, to feminist philosopher Sylviane Agacinski.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

Married in later life to the philosopher Syvliane Agacinski, who survives him, Jospin was respected as an honest – if somewhat technocratic – left-wing leader.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

Just as Pilates has a patron saint in Joseph Pilates, the field of somatics has the late Thomas Hanna, a philosopher and student of neurology who coined the term in 1976.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

No medieval natural philosopher had a view of natural science as making progress, and no medieval natural philosopher was engaged in research, if we understand that to mean the gathering of relevant new information.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton