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Definition of Obscurantists

Obscurantist
Obscurantist Ob*scur"ant*ist, n. Same as Obscurant. --Ed. Rev.

Meaning of Obscurantists from wikipedia

- Philosophers who are neither empiricists nor positivists often are considered obscurantists[citation needed] when describing the abstract concepts of their disciplines...
- advocate of the Jews being Johann Reuchlin, who was opposed by the obscurantists; and this controversy, which was carried on for the most part by means...
- he wrote in that campaign was criticized for using "mediaeval" and "obscurantist" language, and was later admitted by an episcopal source to be a strategic...
- Rikki Ducornet]. It says something about Steely Dan's re****tion as obscurantists that even a straightforward lost-love song like "Rikki Don't Lose That...
- dismissed critics of science such as Hayek and Habermas as dogmatists and obscurantists: To innovate in the young sciences it is necessary to adopt scientism...
- Tukhachevsky, a proponent of armoured blitzkrieg. Stalin promoted some obscurantists like Grigory Kulik who opposed the mechanisation of the army and the...
- book De l'Allemagne (1813) which he viewed as reactionary, Romantic and obscurantist. He felt de Staƫl had portra**** a Germany of "poets and thinkers", dreamy...
- studies). Echoing many critics, Dawkins holds that postmodernism uses obscurantist language to hide its lack of meaningful content. As an example he quotes...
- on issues relating to caste and class exploitation, the fight against obscurantist beliefs, the degeneration of the feudal class, and the break-up of the...
- auf die Angriffe gegen den "Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts", 1937 ("The Obscurantists of Our Time: A Response to the Attacks Against 'The Myth of the 20th...