phobosophy
The fear of abstract knowledge or philosophical thinking; anti-philosophy.
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The great advantage of anti-philosophical philosophy, or what we might call phobosophy or fear of abstract knowledge, was that it enabled you to take the world exactly as you found it and adapt yourself to it to your own best advantage.
Where it comes from
Coined by John Desmond Bernal in The Freedom of Necessity (1949): phobo- (“fear”) + -sophy (“wisdom, knowledge”), in contradistinction with philosophy; compare sophophobia.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry phobosophy (CC BY-SA 4.0).