philosophy
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philosophy/fəˈlɒsəfi/
▶noun (pl. philosophies)
- 1 the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.
■ a set of theories of a particular philosopher.
■ the study of the theoretical basis of a branch of knowledge or experience.
- 2 a theory or attitude that guides one's behaviour.
– origin ME: from OFr. philosophie, via L. from Gk philosophia ‘love of wisdom’.
'philosophy' also found in these Oxford entries:
absolute
- absolutism
- accident
- accidental
- aeon
- aesthetics
- air
- akrasia
- alethic
- Alexandrian
- analytical philosophy
- antithesis
- Aristotelian
- associationism
- atomism
- Baconian
- Benthamism
- BPhil
- Buddhism
- cardinal virtue
- categorical imperative
- category
- chi
- classic
- cogito
- conation
- concept
- conceptualism
- conditional
- connate
- connotation
- consequentialism
- contextualism
- contingency
- contingent
- continuant
- counterfactual
- cynic
- Cyrenaic
- Dasein
- data
- defeasible
- demiurge
- deontic
- deontology
- derive
- descriptivism
- determinism
- dialectic
- differentia
