dialectician vs thinker

dialectician

noun
  • Someone skilled in dialectical idealism: someone able to arrive at historical conclusions through consideration of contradictions. 

  • Someone skilled in dialectical materialism: someone able to arrive at socio-political conclusions through consideration of class differences. 

  • Someone knowledgable about dialects. 

  • Someone skilled in dialectics: someone able to arrive at logical conclusions through reasoned argument. 

thinker

noun
  • An intellectual, such as a philosopher or theologian. 

  • One who spends time thinking, contemplating or meditating. 

  • A poser; a conundrum that requires some thinking. 

  • The brain; the mind. 

How often have the words dialectician and thinker occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )