The commonly regarded definition of an intellectual runs along the lines of not much beyond a vague notion of someone who thinks deeply about ideas and/or concentrates a certain amount of effort to learning an area of intellectual expertise.
“An intellectual is someone who uses their intellect to speculate, reflect, and ask or answer questions about a wide variety of different ideas.” –Wikipedia
I, and many others, however, would beg to differ since I believe this definition is unsuited to the facts of reality akin to the nature of this topic, which vastly underestimates its history. Though I do not believe in completely, nor totally provide a historical definition since my idea of an intellectual person is nature and necessity based, I do think its history is reflective of its nature to a great degree. Where this degree ends and my definition begins is as yet, unknown to me.
However, I have come down the following, practically oriented definition to what an intellectual is, and must be as necessitated by the objective facts of reality.
Neal Cormier 