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In the common use of the word here (the UK, particularly in the writings from the early part of the century), Philistines weren't necessary opposed to intellectuals: a Philistine was anti-intellectual in the sense of having a coarseness or insensitivity to the more refined aspects of culture - art and so on. So the word was frequently used synonymously with boor.
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