"You could call me a philosopher," he told me one evening in bis tent, after a post-dinner planning session with his staff had concluded.
He is called a philosopher, but it is not certain that the term is to be taken literally.
I suppose one would call him a philosopher.
But basically I'm what you might call a philosopher, although that is not the word exactly.
One may call him a 'cultural philosopher', for the primary object of his studies were cultures and their symbolic representations.
He is often called a postmodernist or post-structuralist philosopher.
I. think he might be offended to be called a philosopher.
Or a stray wolf But call the foreigner a philosopher instead of a poet, if you want.
A Muslim engaged in this field is called a Muslim philosopher.
But it also defends him for calling Newton a philosopher rather than a scientist; the word 'scientist' did not exist before 1839.