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Someone who can hear 'that won't work in practice' and still argue it should.
means A person who deals primarily in ideas, analysis, and abstract reasoning — often marked by a preference for theory over immediate practical concerns.
from From Latin 'intellectus,' past participle of 'intellegere' — 'to understand,' built from 'inter-' (between) and 'legere' (to choose, gather, read). So at its root, understanding meant 'choosing between' or 'picking out' — the mind sorting one thing from another. The word passed through Old French into English, and the noun form (someone defined by this faculty) is a later development, sharpened over time into a label sometimes worn with pride, sometimes flung as an insult.
- origin flex
- from Latin intellectus, meaning understanding, not status
- common trait
- footnotes opinions, rarely footnotes feelings
- social risk
- mistaking complicated sentences for complicated thoughts
- true test
- changes mind when evidence does, not when crowd does