Opposed to or against philosophy, philosophical thinking, or the systematic pursuit of knowledge and understanding through reason.
From 'anti' (against) + 'philosophic' (relating to philosophy, from Greek 'philosophia' meaning love of wisdom). The term describes resistance to rational, theoretical thinking.
Anti-intellectualism has deep roots—some people distrust philosophy as impractical, but paradoxically, deciding that philosophy is useless IS a philosophical argument, showing you can't actually escape philosophy!
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