Theorist

(noun.) someone who theorizes (especially in science or art).

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• If Machiavelli is a symbol of the political theorist making reason an instrument of purpose, we may take Sorel as a self-conscious representative of the impulses which generate purpose. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The merely practical man loses much by not knowing the backgrou nd of his activities; the mere theorist fails by mistaking the shadow for the substance. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• You may take him as a symbol of the political theorist. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The notion is typical of the pitfalls in the path of any theorist who does not correct his logic by a constant reference to the movement of life. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• And he was not simply a prophetic theorist; he was also a propagandist of the revolt of labour, the revolt of the so-called proletariat. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The theorist is incompetent when he deals with socialism just because he assumes that men are determined by logic and that a false conclusion will stop a moving, creative force. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact--of absolute undeniable fact--from the embellishments of theorists and reporters. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• When it seemed that no such system had ever been produced, I was on the point of damning the entire tribe of theorists from Plato to Marx. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The attempts of theorists to explain man's successes as rational acts and his failures as lapses of reason have always ended in a dismal and misty unreality. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It never occurred to either of these impractical theorists to call aloud on the chance of attracting their friends' attention. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The political theorists laid some claim to lighting up both the track and the goal, and so I turned to them for help. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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