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Philosophy - English Dictionary

 





1. Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws.
2. A particular philosophical system or theory; the hypothesis by which particular phenomena are explained.
3. Practical wisdom; calmness of temper and judgment; equanimity; fortitude; stoicism; as, to meet misfortune with philosophy.
4. Reasoning; argumentation.
5. The course of sciences read in the schools.
6. A treatise on philosophy.
7. philosophy See computer ethics, liar paradox, netiquette, proof. PHOCUS An object-oriented Prolog-like language. ["PHOCUS: Production Rules, Horn Clauses, Objects and Contexts in a Unification Based System", D. Chan et al, Actes du Sem Prog et Logique, Tregastel May 1987, pp. 77-108].
8. a belief or system of beliefs accepted as authoritative by some group or school

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aesthetic aesthetics aristotelianism axiology belief deconstruction determinism dialectic dianoetic empiricism epistemology ethics etiology existentialism final cause formalism humanistic discipline idealism immanent intuitionism jurisprudence logic logicism materialism mechanism mentalism metaphysics nativism naturalism nominalism operationalism philosopher philosophic philosophical philosophize platonism pragmatism presentational probabilism rationalism realism relativism semiotics sensualism solipsism stoicism subjectivism teleology transcendentalism transeunt vitalism



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