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philosophy::noun | Spocien Dictionary

philosophy

/fɪ'lɑsəfi/

a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

Type	Words
Synonyms	doctrine, ism, philosophical system, school of thought
Type of	belief
Has types	absolutism, abolitionism, commandment, contextualism, creationism, credo, creed, democracy, descriptivism, divine right, divine right of kings, dogma, dualism, dynamism, egalitarianism, epicureanism, equalitarianism, establishmentarianism, establishmentism, ethicism, expansionism, feminism, formalism, freethinking, functionalism, girondism, gospel, gymnosophy, humanism, humanitarianism, imitation, individualism, internationalism, irredentism, irridentism, kabbalism, laissez faire, literalism, majority rule, millennium, monism, multiculturalism, nationalism, nihilism, nuclear deterrence, pacificism, pacifism, passivism, phenomenology, philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory, pluralism, populism, precept, prescriptivism, presentism, rationalism, reformism, reincarnationism, religious doctrine, secessionism, secular humanism, secularism, states' rights, teaching, theological doctrine, unilateralism, utilitarianism, amoralism, animalism, animism, antiestablishmentarianism, antiestablishmentism, asceticism, cabalism, church doctrine
Derivation	philosopher, philosophical

philosophy

/fɪ'lɑsəfi/

any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation

Type	Words
Type of	belief
Derivation	philosophical, philosopher

self-indulgence was his only philosophy.

my father's philosophy of child-rearing was to let mother do it.

philosophy

/fɪ'lɑsəfi/

the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics

Type	Words
Type of	liberal arts, arts, humanistic discipline, humanities
Has types	esthetics, epistemology, dialectic, moral philosophy, transcendentalism, metaphysics, jurisprudence, logic, aetiology, axiology, aesthetics, legal philosophy, law, transcendental philosophy, etiology, ethics
Derivation	philosophize, philosophical, philosophise, philosopher, philosophic