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Philosophical vs Phobosophy - What's the difference?

philosophical | phobosophy |

As an adjective philosophical

is of, or pertaining to, philosophy.

As a noun phobosophy is

the fear of abstract knowledge or philosophical thinking; anti-philosophy.

philosophical

English

Alternative forms

* philosophicall (obsolete) * phylosophical (nonstandard) * phylosophicall (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, or pertaining to, philosophy.
  • Rational; analytic or critically-minded; thoughtful.
  • * 1846 , , "The Sphinx" in Arthur's Ladies Magazine ,
    • His richly philosophical intellect was not at any time affected by unrealities.
  • Detached, calm, stoic.
  • * 1911 , , "The Schartz-Metterklume Method,"
    • She bore the desertion with philosophical indifference.

    Antonyms

    * nonphilosophical

    Synonyms

    * philosophic

    Derived terms

    * philosophically

    External links

    * (wikipedia "philosophical")

    phobosophy

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The fear of abstract knowledge or philosophical thinking; anti-philosophy.
  • * 1949 , , The Freedom of Necessity , page 393:
    • The great advantage of anti-philosophical philosophy, or what we might call phobosophy or fear of abstract knowledge, was that it enabled you to take the world exactly as you found it and adapt yourself to it to your own best advantage.
  • * 1954 , , volumes 45–46, page 337:
    • It is a remarkable doctrine which,[…f]ar from being “a philosophy of religion,” it is much rather a phobosophy , a fear of knowledge — neither essentially philosophic nor religious.
  • * 1973 , , The Second Sin , page 21:
    • Philosophy is, literally, the love of knowledge; phobosophy is the fear of it. There are obviously more “phobosophers” in the world than philosophers.
  • * 1997 , Edwin A. Roberts, The Anglo-Marxists: A Study in Ideology and Culture , page 168:
    • Bernal believed strongly that the whole of modern philosophy, save for Marxism, had let the spirit of the Enlightenment down, which he blamed on the rise of phobosophy or the fear of abstract thinking.
  • * 2000 , Leslie P. Steffe and Patrick W. Thompson [eds.], Radical Constructivism in Action: Building on the Pioneering Work of Ernst von Glasersfeld , page xiii:
    • ‘[T]he best'' thoughts [of these scholars] could ''well be omitted’?? There must be a mistake. I couldn’t imagine such a severe case of phobosophy .

    Derived terms

    * (l) (rare)

    Related terms

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