philologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philologists
Etymology: From philology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Foucault's incisive scrutiny and consistent analysis of antique culture has opened the eyes of many a philosopher, philologist or anthropologist who considered himself an expert on the very texts and issues that Foucault addresses. In the years following the publication of Foucault's works an intense debate arose on the subject of sexuality in antiquity, perhaps primarily in feminist and homosexual circles, although by no means exclusively.
ref: 2013, Vigdis Songe-Møller, Philosophy Without Women: The Birth of Sexism in Western Thought, page 130, pub. A&C Black, isbn: 978-1-84714-350-1
glosses: A person who engages in philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession; a collector of words and their etymologies.
examples: text: Like Johnson, in Herculean might,
Bid some philologist arise,—
Some Milton, with seraphic flight,
Or Newton, pupil of the skies.
ref: 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, On visiting the University of Virginia, at Charlottesville, page 125:
text: 2015, Franssen, Maarten, Lokhorst, Gert-Jan and van de Poel, Ibo, "Philosophy of Technology", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2015/entries/technology/
The author of the first text in which the term ‘philosophy of technology’ occurred, Ernst Kapp’s Eine Philosophie der Technik, was a philologist and historian. Most of the authors who wrote critically about technology and its socio-cultural role during the twentieth century were philosophers of a general outlook ... or had a background in one of the other humanities or in social science, like literary criticism and social research..., law..., political science... or literary studies... The form of philosophy of technology constituted by the writings of these and others has been called... ‘humanities philosophy of technology’, because it takes its point of departure in the social sciences and the humanities rather than in the practice of technology.
glosses: A person devoted to general learning and literature.
examples: text: 2015, Van Norden, Bryan, "Wang Yangming", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2014/entries/wang-yangming
For Zhu Xi's explanation of the phrase “ge wu,” see his commentary on Great Learning... For Wang's interpretation, see his “Questions on the Great Learning”... Unfortunately, the key word “ge” is highly ambiguous, so both interpretations ... are completely defensible... Nivison... described the phrase as “a philologist's delight,” because of the endless speculation it could provoke, and argued that “[n]o one will ever know what it really meant in its locus classicus.”
glosses: A person devoted to classical scholarship.
Synonyms: word: philologist
word: philologer
word: philologian
Hypernyms: word: humanities scholar
word: person
Related terms: word: logophile
word: word lover
word: student
word: specialist
word: humanist
word: scholar
word: linguist
word: :Category:en:Humanities
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 492. Scholar