The man who has acquired knowledge via memorization and without intellectual challenge has suffered a grave disservice. Becoming, in life, a sickly and vile man to work with. His entire being now functioning via rote processes and rules manufactured in head; rigid and defined and incapable of responding appropriately to dynamic situations. One can almost smell the painful inner deliberations, almost all of which end in rejection (which, to be sure, serves to protect and preserve). "Where does this fit? How to react? What rule to follow?" "Warning...exiting comfort zone!!"
One may award him the euphemism 'principled' but a more precise categorization would be automaton.
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