If you exclude reading, writing, speaking, and listening (ie use of language, including math or code) as mere table stakes, how would you define “intellectual” in terms of essential non-language behaviors that non-intellectuals typically don’t exhibit?
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So intellectuals are simply scholars? Also, I don’t think that intellectuals are distinguished from non-intellectuals by their behavior. More, however, by how others behave towards them
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You’re misreading the question. In your terms I’m asking what distinguishes full intellectuals from “mere scholars”
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I think of intellectuals as essentially political, so I say, “Engagement outside of a particular field of study or institutional, academic framework” - Think: Oppenheimer
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