Claim: Plato was a theorist.
Evidence: Plato -LRB- -LSB- ˈpleɪtoʊ -RSB- Greek : Πλάτων Plátōn , -LSB- plá.tɔːn -RSB- in Classical Attic ; 428/427 or 424/423 -- 348/347 BCE -RRB- was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens , the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
In the classical sense , a philosopher was someone who lived according to a certain way of life , focusing on resolving existential questions about the human condition , and not someone who discourses upon theories or comments upon authors.