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1. philosophers

   A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term philosopher comes from the Ancient Greek: φιλόσοφος, romanized: philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek thinker Pythagoras (6th century BCE). In the classical sense, a philosopher was someone who lived according to a certain way of life, focusing upon resolving existential questions about the human condition; it was not necessary that they discoursed upon theories or commented upon authors. Those who most arduously committed themselves to this lifestyle would have been considered philosophers. In a modern sense, a philosopher is an intellectual who contributes to one or more branches of philosophy, such as aesthetics, ethics, epistemology, philosophy of science, logic, metaphysics, social theory, philosophy of religion, and political philosophy. A philosopher may also be someone who has worked in the humanities or other sciences which over the centuries have split from philosophy, such as the arts, history, economics, sociology, psychology, linguistics, anthropology, theology, and politics.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of philosophers in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of philosophers in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of philosophers in a Sentence

1. Octavio Paz:

   'Art' is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

2. William James:

   There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

3. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.

4. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3:

   One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm.

5. Ancient Simian Proverb:

   Plato described in great detail a plan for government in which philosophers would take turns ruling the less able people of the country. As you may remember, Plato and his friends were philosophers.

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