I agree that Peterson is an intellectual, albeit a crappy one: his current public persona mainly performs a popular image of intellectualism, “a non-intellectual’s idea of a intellectual” (to paraphrase the old saw about how
is a poor person’s idea of a rich person)
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Like, Crusoe has no way to be a *historian* because there is no history on the island as such. He can be a natural historian and invent theories of how the island came to have the ecology it did, from scratch, but not a "people" historian.
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That’s probably right. I do tend to think of intellectuals in symbolic terms. (“Scientist” is something else, because that depends not just on thinking and writing but on actually “doing” science — which in the contemporary world is very often a capital intensive pursuit.)
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Heh, I think it's all science. Some of the sciences just have extra steps in the Great Feedback Loop of empirical grounding in something rhyming with falsifiability.
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