I'm going to counter this with another anecdotal argument:
Today more people than ever are philosophers. How many people have influenced your thought while exploring the internet in past year (or 10 years)? They are not labeled as such, but I do strongly suspect that Aristotle was considered an exceptional, and eccentric maths and ethos teacher at his time, not "great thinker Aristotle".
Today more people than ever are philosophers. How many people have influenced your thought while exploring the internet in past year (or 10 years)? They are not labeled as such, but I do strongly suspect that Aristotle was considered an exceptional, and eccentric maths and ethos teacher at his time, not "great thinker Aristotle".