Men of true ſcience modestly admit the truth on the authority of the divine word; the ſciolist in imitation of the peasant, whoſe obſtinacy is the natural reſult of pride, and ignorance, will not believe if he does not comprehend.
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Sciolist
//ˈsaɪəlɪst//
Synonyms for "sciolist" (9 found)
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Czech
2 entries- nedouk noun (self-proclaimed expert with little understanding)
- polovzdělanec noun (self-proclaimed expert with little understanding)
Ukrainian
1 entries- псевдовче́ний noun (self-proclaimed expert with little understanding)
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Alfred Marshall (1885) The Present Position of Economics: Among the bad results of the narrowness of the work of English economists early in the century perhaps the most unfortunate was the opportunity which it gave to sciolists to quote and misapply economic dogmas.
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But M. [Édouard] Dujardin is a poet; "vers libres" in the hands of a sciolist are the most intolerably easy and annoying of poetical exercises.
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And I think I can divine two classes of agitators from whom we may apprehend danger. I name them together as the sciolists and the socialists. The sciolist is dangerous in politics, as elsewhere, because his knowledge is imperfect and superficial and his conceit is apt to be in proportion to his ignorance.
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