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In natural English speech, "thinker" appears in contexts such as: "And I thought, "What does that mean to be spiritual? What is it, in fact, that we mean by spirituality?" It's a signifier that the great Derrida, the deconstructionist, post-structuralist thinker, would call a floating signifier, because it's very hard to get a handle on what we mean by spiritual. A lot of people simply talk about spiritual-like, maybe George Lucas's the Force, or something that can't really be defined. It's a quest for maybe a higher meaning or more transcendent feeling. So, all of this began to be, to come into". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

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IPA/ˈθɪŋ.kɚ/

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And I thought, "What does that mean to be spiritual? What is it, in fact, that we mean by spirituality?" It's a signifier that the great Derrida, the deconstructionist, post-structuralist

thinker, would call a floating signifier, because it's very hard to get a handle on what we mean by spiritual. A lot of people simply talk about spiritual-like, maybe George

Lucas's the Force, or something that can't really be defined. It's a quest for maybe a higher meaning or more transcendent feeling. So, all of this began to be, to come into

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noun

One who spends time thinking, contemplating or meditating.

“The doer and the thinker No allowance for the other.”

noun

An intellectual, such as a philosopher or theologian.

“From his studies of these thinkers and activists, Mr. Obama took what he called the “Niebuhrian” lesson that we can have “a cleareyed view of the world and the realities of cruelty and sin and greed and violence, and yet, still maintain a sense of hope and possibility, as an act of will and leap of faith.””

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