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The general scholarship is something one obtains while studying for a philosophy degree, not something someone signals with it...
It seems to me that philosophy forked into two branches. One branch builds foundations carefully and knows a valid argument from an invalid one. Other branch is swayed too much by the desire to have answers right now, gives in to the temptation of deceiving oneself.
So when there's a very complicated problem - nature of consciousness for example - the former branch stays silent like a kid at school who knows how to answer the test problem, working out the inferences towards the answer, while the latter one writes in guesses right now.