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Loving ideas so much you forget they're supposed to do something.

means The habit of valuing reasoning, ideas, and the life of the mind as a guiding force in life — or, more critically, prizing thought for its own sake over feeling or action.

from Built from 'intellect,' from Latin intellectus — 'understanding,' the past participle of intelligere, 'to perceive, to choose between' (inter- 'between' + legere 'to gather, choose, read'). The '-ism' suffix, Greek in ancestry, turns a mental faculty into a whole stance or doctrine — the move from 'having intellect' to 'making a philosophy of it' happened as 19th-century thinkers started naming -isms for every posture of mind, often with a raised eyebrow attached.

not intelligence
it's the performance, not the substance
favorite move
citing someone instead of answering you
risk
mistaking footnotes for conclusions
tell
uses jargon where a sentence would do
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