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What is the difference between an intellectual and a pseudo intellectual? What does a pseudo intellectual believe that a real intellectual doesn't and vice versa? What would you consider yourself to be?

>> No.11214927

>>11214911
A pseudo intellectual uses big word and concept s he doesn't really understand/he didn't assimilate correctly.
An intellectual articulates a new idea or observation in an eloquent manner.

I'm not an intellectual neither a pseudo intellectual.

>> No.11214929

>>11214911
pseudo-intellectuals will call you a pseud, intellectuals will listen and refute

>> No.11214972

>>11214929
>implying you take the time to refute every shitpost you receive

>> No.11215506

>>11214911
a pseudointellectual usually has a name for their logic system

>> No.11215508

>>11215506
and it is often highly corruptible

>> No.11215509

>>11214911
Pseuds think they're smart
Intellectuals know they're not

>> No.11215551

>>11214911
The pseud will present in a way trivial to those that already know, but intimidating to those that do not.

>> No.11215563

>>11214911
I don't get this society fixation with intelligence, I usually don't mind if some one is smarter than me

>> No.11215566

>>11214911
Psueds don't think things through and do not have the foundational knowledge to go through the thought process required to arrive at various different scenarios. Intellectuals are those with foundational knowledge and can expand on those thoughts easily. These are however not mutually exclusives though. Intellectuals can become pseuds once they over reach the limits of their knowledge and start to grasp at straws. It happens too often.

>> No.11215601

>>11214911
Pseuds make threads on /sci/ asking stupid questions. The most retarded ones will put meme shit as the thread pic.

>> No.11215622

>>11214911
There's a difference between understanding something and knowing what the thing does. It's easy to simply spit out buzzwords to appear intelligent if you simply know the general meaning of said buzzword.

If you understand something fully, you're able to explain something to the listener at the level they're at. Otherwise you're doing nothing more than trying to appear intellectual, you're merely reciting something which, at most, fits the context of conversation.

An intellectual, much like Einstein, could still bring his knowledge down far far below his own knowledgelevel. A pseud, much like Elon Musk, mostly boast condescendingly with buzzwords in order to appear intellectual. A pseud lacks the connection to what the knowledge he's reciting actually means.

>> No.11215628
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>>11215622
>einstein

>> No.11215692

>>11214972
>acknowledging shitposters in the first place

>> No.11216219
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pseuds reject people who are smarter than them because ego

>> No.11216277

>>11215622
what does elon say to sound smart? I never thought of him as a super smart guy, just very creative and hard working

>> No.11216367

>>11214911
An intellectual is smart. A pseudo intellectual is also half Japanese.

>> No.11216383

>>11215563
Society not really. Beyond a certain intellect/hard-work/income correlation, people dgaf. This board, on the other hand, does give that impression as half of those making these threads are /pol/ indoctrinates venting insecurity over their make believe-fiction.

>> No.11216924

>>11214911
One can recognize the dunning-kruger effect the other can not.

>> No.11216929

>>11214911
pseuds namefag under pseudonyms (i.e Solifagus)
intellectuals just use their real identity (tooker)

>> No.11216932

>>11216277
Elon is just a conman, promises the world when he only has pennies to give.

>> No.11216940

>>11216219
This picture is of two kinds of people: scientists, and mathematicians who prefer to call themselves physicists. Scientists are cutting to the chase, trying to use pragmatism sparsely, where the physicist takes pragmatism to the extreme and looks for mathematical patterns simply because they ought to be there when trying to describe something physical.

>> No.11216984

>>11216932
but he's met most his promises hasn't he? is he that difficult to trust??

>> No.11217368

>>11214911
his house was just robbed. lmao. no lmao. in japan.

>> No.11217384

>>11214911
Intellectuals are ethic pseuds are bafoons, learned monkeys

>> No.11217429

>>11216984
He's lied on twitter and insulted someone on twitter. He's worse than hitler.

>> No.11217459

A psuedointellectual will tell you what to think. An intellectual will teach you how to think

>> No.11217469

>>11214911

STEM is intellectual, social science is pseudo-intellectual

>> No.11217473

>>11217469
Well seems like mathematicians really can't read.

>> No.11217727

>>11214911
pseudo-intellectuals don't give a shit about being right.

They just want to LOOK like they are right.

>> No.11217822

>>11216219
holy shit!

>> No.11218977

>>11214911
a pseudointellectual speaks in public, an intellectual thinks in private

>> No.11219389

>>11216367
beautiful

>> No.11219430

>>11215566
Basically peterson?

>> No.11219446

>posts a picture of a youtuber
I'm keeping my secrets to myself, sorry.

>> No.11219877

>>11215509
>Pseuds think they're smart, but they're not, so they wrong
>Intellectual are smart, but think they are not, so they also wrong
Sounds like the perfect brainlet cope

>> No.11219883

Pseudointellectuals make up conspiracies and schizo shit, intellectuals go through the most likely possibilities first.

>> No.11219897

>>11214911
a psued is interested in the identity of an intellectual
a true intellectual is desperately trying to find the truth

>> No.11219931
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>>11214911
>What is the difference between an intellectual and a pseudo intellectual?

Erasmus from Rotterdam stated that stupidity is a state of closure to some fragment of reality. I agree with the following statement. So stupidity is a state in which certain arguments, facts, etc., are not the same. (fragments of reality) to me don't reach me because I have blocked them from reaching my consciousness.


Conclusion: Therefore, stupidity is not a lack of
intellectual disposition (mental handicap). Stupidity is the result of a person's choice. That is why stupidity can be condemned (because whether we are stupid or not depends on us). Everyone, regardless of level of education can be a fool. That's how I would personally understand stupidity.

>> No.11219940

>>11217429
Also literally an antisemite. *Who* owns the press? Really??? I wonder what he might have implied by that! Just another proof that alt-right is present in every economic class.