philosophy
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(noun) any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation; "self-indulgence was his only philosophy"; "my father's philosophy of child-rearing was to let mother do it" |
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Related Words: belief |
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(noun) the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics |
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Related Words: aesthetics, aetiology, arts, axiology, dialectic, epistemology, esthetics, ethics, etiology, humanistic discipline, humanities, jurisprudence, law, legal philosophy, liberal arts, logic, metaphysics, moral philosophy, transcendental philosophy, transcendentalism |
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(noun) a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school |
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Synonyms: doctrine, ism, school of thought |
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Related Words: abolitionism, absolutism, amoralism, animalism, animism, belief, church doctrine, creationism, credo, creed, dogma, dualism, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, egalitarianism, epicureanism, equalitarianism, expansionism, feminism, formalism, freethinking, functionalism, gospel, gymnosophy, humanism, humanitarianism, imitation, individualism, internationalism, irredentism, irridentism, laissez faire, literalism, majority rule, monism, nihilism, pacifism, passivism, philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory, pluralism, populism, precept, rationalism, religious doctrine, secessionism, secularism, teaching, theological doctrine, unilateralism, utilitarianism |
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