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Dec. 9, 2014

philosophaster \fi-los-uh-FAS-ter, fi-LOS-uh-fas-ter\ noun 1. a person who has only a superficial knowledge of philosophy or who feigns a knowledge he or she does not possess. Quotes Is it a fact that absence necessarily implies knowledge? What do you say to that, philosophaster? -- José Rizal, translated by Charles Derbyshire, The Reign of Greed, 1891 Origin Philosophaster came to English in the early 1600s from the Late Latin term of the same spelling.

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