tegwick
2d1282a61e
Restructure entity storage from per-chapter subdirectories to a flat
canonical set in output/entities/. Each entity exists as a single file;
duplicates across chapters are detected by slug collision and skipped
(first occurrence wins). Chapter views use {{ include }} transclusion
to reference shared entity files.
Add @{existing_entities} macro to extract-entities template so the LLM
knows which entities already exist and focuses on genuinely new ones.
Refactor _call_llm() from _execute_llm() for callers that handle their
own file I/O. 41 unique entities from 4 chapters (2 duplicates removed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The Philosopher
Definition
A person whose occupation is observation and speculation rather than direct production — "men of speculation, whose trade it is not to do any thing, but to observe every thing." Smith treats the philosopher as an economic actor whose specialised function is combining knowledge from diverse fields to produce innovations and improvements, analogous to how the workman improves their own narrow task.
Source Chapter
Book I, Chapter 1: "Of the Division of Labour"
Context
Introduced near the end of Smith's discussion of the third mechanism (invention of machinery). Smith notes that as society progresses, philosophy itself becomes a specialised trade, subdivided into branches, with each philosopher becoming expert in their field — the division of labour applied to intellectual work.
Economic Domain
General Theory
Smith's Original Wording
"In the progress of society, philosophy or speculation becomes, like every other employment, the principal or sole trade and occupation of a particular class of citizens."