He's an unwitting folklorist, a collector and expounder of hipster philosophy, barroom trivia, and pseudoscience. |
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Playfair earned for himself a high reputation in at least three branches of pure science, not primarily as a discoverer but rather as an expounder of theories. |
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The ancient Irish judge, or Brehon, was an arbitrator, umpire, and expounder of the law, rather than a judge in the modern sense. |
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Long before he went into politics, Cuomo was a practitioner, professor, expounder, and lover of the law. |
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A lifelong decipherer of Mesopotamian clay tablets at the British Museum, Irving Finkel is also a comparative philologist, an amateur mathematician and, above all, a gifted detective and a charming expounder of mysteries. |
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If, upon investigation, we find the teachings reasonable and faultless, we should accept them, but if they lack these qualities we should reject them, no matter how famous or charismatic their expounder might be. |
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