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• anomalist go
  someone who has a special interest in exceptional cases
  
• exponent go
  someone who expounds and interprets or explains
  
• alchemist go
  one who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone
  
• aphorist go
  someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms
  
• bel esprit go
  a witty or clever person with a fine mind
  
• clever Dick, clever clogs go
  an intellectual who is ostentatiously and irritatingly knowledgeable
  
• decoder, decipherer go
  the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text
  
• egghead go
  an intellectual
  
• expositor, expounder go
  a person who explains
  
• brain, genius, mastermind, brainiac, Einstein go
  someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
  
• highbrow go
  a person of intellectual or erudite tastes
  
• mentor, wise man go
  a wise and trusted guide and advisor
  
• scholar, scholarly person, bookman, student go
  a learned person (especially in the humanities)
  
• doubter, skeptic, sceptic go
  someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs
  
• specifier go
  someone who draws up specifications giving details (as for obtaining a patent)
  
• subjectivist go
  a person who subscribes to subjectivism
  
• synthesizer, synthesiser, synthesist go
  an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods
  
• theorist, theoretician, theorizer, theoriser, idealogue go
  someone who theorizes (especially in science or art)
  
• mind, thinker, creative thinker go
  an important intellectual
  
• thinker go
  someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision)
  
• illusionist, seer, visionary go
  a person with unusual powers of foresight
  
• wonderer go
  someone who is curious about something