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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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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. R.W. Emerson, Self-Reliance:

   A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

2. Oliver Wendell Holmes:

   Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

3. William James:

   What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

4. William James:

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

5. Nancy Sherman:

   The ancient world was not a place for modern gender equity. But the Stoic philosophers, in their discourses on political and moral life, held that virtue, or ethical excellence, had no gender. Zeno of Citium envisaged an ideal community of sages that included women. The view follows from the Stoic doctrine that all humans are endowed with reason.

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1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophers