A person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences.
Roget 492:
scholar,
connoisseur,
savant,
pundit,
schoolman†,
professor,
graduate,
wrangler;
academician,
academist†;
master of arts,
doctor,
licentitate,
gownsman;
philosopher,
master of math;
scientist,
clerk;
sophist,
sophister†;
linguist;
glossolinguist,
philologist;
philologer†;
lexicographer,
glossographer;
grammarian;
litterateur [Fr.],
literati,
dilettanti,
illuminati,
cogniscenti [It];
fellow,
Hebraist,
lexicologist,
mullah,
munshi†,
Sanskritish;
sinologist,
sinologue†;
Mezzofanti†,
admirable Crichton,
Mecaenas.
bookworm,
helluo librorum [Lat.];
bibliophile,
bibliomaniac†;
bluestocking,
bas-bleu [Fr.];
bigwig,
learned Theban,
don;
Artium Baccalaureus [Lat.],
Artium Magister [Lat.].
learned man,
literary man;
homo multarum literarum [Lat.];
man of learning,
man of letters,
man of education,
man of genius.
antiquarian,
antiquary;
archaeologist.
sage
etc.
(wise man)
500.
pedant,
doctrinaire;
pedagogue,
Dr.
Pangloss;
pantologist†,
criminologist.
schoolboy
etc.
(learner)
541.
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Roget 463:
experiment;
essay
etc.
(attempt)
675;
analysis
etc.
(investigation)
461;
screen;
trial,
tentative method,
t=atonnement.
verification,
probation,
experimentum crucis [Lat.],
proof,
(demonstration)
478;
criterion,
diagnostic,
test,
probe,
crucial test,
acid test,
litmus test.
crucible,
reagent,
check,
touchstone,
pix†;
assay,
ordeal;
ring;
litmus paper,
curcuma paper†,
turmeric paper;
test tube;
analytical instruments
etc.
633.
empiricism,
rule of thumb.
feeler;
trial balloon,
pilot balloon,
messenger balloon;
pilot engine;
scout;
straw to show the wind.
speculation,
random shot,
leap in the dark.
analyzer,
analyst,
assayist†;
adventurer;
experimenter,
experimentist†,
experimentalist;
scientist,
engineer,
technician.
subject,
experimentee†,
guinea pig,
experimental animal.
[experimental method]
protocol,
experimental method,
blind experiment,
double-blind experiment,
controlled experiment.
poll,
survey,
opinion poll.
epidemiological survey [Med.],
retrospective analysis,
retrospective survey,
prospective survey,
prospective analysis;
statistical analysis.
literature search,
library research.
tryout,
audition.
[results of experiment]
discovery
etc.
480;
measurement
etc.
466;
evidence
etc.
467.
[reasoning about an experiment]
deduction,
induction,
abduction.
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Roget 476:
reasoning ratiocination rationalism;
dialectics,
induction,
generalization.
discussion,
comment;
ventilation;
inquiry
etc.
461.
argumentation,
controversy,
debate;
polemics,
wrangling;
contention
etc.
720;
logomachy†;
disputation,
disceptation†;
paper war.
art of reasoning,
logic.
process of reasoning,
train of reasoning,
chain of reasoning;
deduction,
induction,
abduction;
synthesis,
analysis.
argument;
case,
plaidoyer†,
opening;
lemma,
proposition,
terms,
premises,
postulate,
data,
starting point,
principle;
inference
etc.
(judgment)
480.
prosyllogism†,
syllogism;
enthymeme†,
sorites†,
dilemma,
perilepsis†,
a priori reasoning,
reductio ad absurdum,
horns of a dilemma,
argumentum ad hominem [Lat.],
comprehensive argument;
empirema†,
epagoge†.
[person who reasons]
reasoner,
logician,
dialectician;
disputant;
controversialist,
controvertist†;
wrangler,
arguer,
debater polemic,
casuist,
rationalist;
scientist;
eristic†.
logical sequence;
good case;
correct just reasoning,
sound reasoning,
valid reasoning,
cogent reasoning,
logical reasoning,
forcible reasoning,
persuasive reasoning,
persuasory reasoning†,
consectary reasoning†,
conclusive
etc.
478;
subtle reasoning;
force of argument,
strong point,
strong argument,
persuasive argument.
arguments,
reasons,
pros and cons.
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