philosophoid

plural philosophoids

1. derogatoryA philosophical sciolist; a self-proclaimed expert in philosophy who exhibits only superficial knowledge.

   Near-synonym: pseudophilosopher

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   Time marches on and you eventually got yourself a good 2% millenia worth of philosophoids more or less getting down to bizness until suddenly without much warning your 20th century Rhetoricians happen along, this time pulling a reversal by running the equivalent of a Socratic inquisition on the entire corpus of what's all this time philosophically gone down, suggesting that Aristotle, Aquinas, Matthew of Aquisparta, Jakob Boehme, Bishop Berkeley, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, and the whole damn crew ain't really been saying anything at all of any import.

   1976 November 1, R[ichard] Meltzer, “Hayawaka Says He Means What He Says”, in The Village Voice, volume 21, number 44, New York, N.Y.: The Village Voice, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 22, column 2

   Yeah, well: it's a divide visible to philosophoids, but to them alone. Somewhat tautological too: mental is intensional and intensional is mental.

   1996 December 10, Oliver Sparrow, “Conversations”, in comp.ai.philosophy (Usenet)

   No Democracy is a necessary element in "gov't". If you check your history it's the scientoids and philosophoids who try to take it away who become the willing or unwilling (take your choice) sacrificial assholes.

   2001 October 10, James Hunter, “Conversations”, in sci.physics (Usenet)

   Or maybe not. The _matter_ (the exact flavour of philosophoid rightist snake oil) may have changed a bit, but the _form_ (radical rightist unseriousness) is with M. de Fukuyama still, as sufficiently appears from that deliciously fatuous final sentence above.

   2004 December 2, John H. McCloskey, “Conversations”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet)

   philosophoids about too^([sic – meaning to]) cope and seethe over this

   2021 June 29, @peppermintflyby, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 17 Sep 2026

   Synonyms: pseudophilosopher

comparative more philosophoid · superlative most philosophoid