Meaning of philosophunculist | Babel Free

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A minor or insignificant philosopher; someone who claims philosophical expertise that they do not possess.

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Examples

“The unsettled races of the north, constituting the Chartists, are Scotch philosophunculists and Irish savages, or the children of such.”

“But you know⟳, or should know⟳, that I am a senior philosophunculist on active duty.”

“Cunningham's brilliant explication of ‘glassie Essence’ and related matters first appeared in ELH, 19 (1952), see⟳ esp. p. 266, but has been ignored by those whom Robert Burton would call⟳ the philosophunculists of the academy as well as by most students of Shakespeare.”

“However, you should never be a philosophunculist (Go look⟳ it up) to succeed⟳ in your business ventures.”

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