Are you a pseudo intellectual?What does that mean to you?

Question

Not the definition........but YOUR interpretation=)

What a fun and entertaining group of answers!!! Thank you ALL so much it is quite difficult to choose the best one!
Just give me another day.

Answer 1

I most certainly am.

My interpretation of the term is a guy who thinks he is pretty smart, and considers himself fairly well educated merely because he is a somewhat avid reader and has maybe a couple years of college. So the pseudo-intellectual stands out as smart when compared to much of his peer group, but in reality, is just another average joe.

Ok, just described myself...

Answer 2

I like to believe that I'm not a pseudo-intellectual.

Here's what I think of when I think about that term:

A pseudo-intellectual is someone who knows lots of facts--lots of details--but doesn't really understand the value, importance or beauty of them. A pseudo-intellectual reads, say, Dostoevsky and knows enough to praise him, but deep down doesn't get it at all.

A pseudo-intellectual rejects the trendy because, among intellectuals, it is highly trendy to do so. Appearance is everything, and a pseudo-intellectual would rather anything than admit that he doesn't know, or was wrong. Real intellectuals recognize and freely admit that they don't know it all, and are happy to be politely corrected/learn new things. Pseudo-intellectuals are there because they like the package of "being intellectual"; real intellectuals are there because they love learning and truth.

Answer 3

I am a pseudo-intellectual.That's a guy with about a 140 IQ,who kicks *** on Jeopardy,answers question after question for no apparent reason except ego,gets tons of best answers, and has been a truck driver for 30 years,as opposed to an educated person who works in the education or science fields.Also the other definition for me is a "Blowhard" who THINKS he knows but doesn't know poop.

Answer 4

Calling someone a pseudo-intellectual is both childish and ignorant. It is a last-ditch effort that is used when you are losing an argument. Whenever someone calls someone this I just think that they are a very childish person who can't grasp the concept that if the person is using "big words" to appear smart then they must know how to use those words and must therefore be knowledgable when it comes to the art of debating.

Answer 5

Yes I am to the extent that I think that I know anything.

True knowledge is a perpetually open mind that is never quite sure that it already knows everything there is to know about anything.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 6

What a pseudo intellectual would say:


"Perhaps an atom in our finger is an entire universe on its own scale, with galaxies, its own measurements in light years, planets, an earth like ours, and people like ours ... and their fingers have atoms that are entire universes, and so on

... going up!

Imagine that our universe is nothing but an atom in the finger of some being at some vastly higher scale. Then his universe is nothing but an atom on a being of a vastly higher scale yet."


Said while high on pot!




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Answer 7

No-one considers themselve pseudo-intellectual. Those who are pseudo-intellectual fancy themselves as fully intellectual. That's the problem.

Answer 8

Someone who has a shallow knowledge of many different things, but no in-death understanding of anything.

Another definition, someone who can make himself sound smart, but who really doesn't know what he is talking about.

Answer 9

let me give it some deep thought and I will get back to you

Answer 10

No. I can say "I don't know".