Meaning of philosophy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism, often attempting to provide explanations relating to general concepts such as existence and rationality.
   uncountable
2. An academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism, often attempting to provide explanations relating to general concepts such as existence and rationality
3. A view or outlook regarding fundamental principles underlying some domain.
   countable
4. A view or outlook regarding fundamental principles underlying some domain
5. the philosophic doctrine that claims that events can or do occur without cause. — accidentalist, n.
6. A general principle (usually moral).
   countable
7. A general principle (usually moral)
8. the doctrine that all reality is animate, in motion, or in process. — actualist, n. — actualistic, adj.
9. A comprehensive system of belief.
   countable
10. A comprehensive system of belief
11. a branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and the beautiful. — aesthete, aesthetic, n., adj. — aesthetical, adj.
12. The love of wisdom.
    archaic, uncountable
13. The love of wisdom
14. reasoning deductively, from a generalization to particular events.
15. A calm and thoughtful demeanor; calmness of temper.
    dated, uncountable
16. the science of the systemization of knowledge. See also architecture; art.
17. Synonym of small pica (especially in French printing).
    countable, dated, uncountable
18. the study of virtue.
19. A broader branch of (non-applied) science.
    archaic, countable
20. the philosophy of Aristotle, especially an emphasis upon formal deductive logic, upon the concept that reality is a combination of form and matter, and upon investigation of the concrete and particular. — Aristotelian, n., adj.
21. the theory that minute, discrete, finite, and indivisible elements are the ultimate constituents of all matter. Also called atomic theory. — atomist, n. — atomistic, atomistical, adj.
22. the philosophy of Averroës, chiefly Aristotelianism tinged with Neoplatonism, asserting the unity of an active and divine intellect common to all while denying personal immortality. — Averroist, Averrhoist, n. — Averroistic, Averrhoistic, adj.
23. the philosophical theory of Jeremy Bentham that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility and that pleasure and pain are both the ultimate Standard of right and wrong and the fundamental motives influencing human actions and wishes. — Benthamite, n. — Benthamic, adj.

Equivalents

Examples

“Philosophy is often divided into five major branches: logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and aesthetics.”

“During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]”

“a philosophy of government; a philosophy of education”

“As a matter of fact the Enlightment culture was based on a philosophy inspired to an ethical laicism whose aim was to create a better society based on principles such as solidarity, equality of rights and duties, and full freedom.”

“Although I prefer small pica. Or as its^([sic]) sometimes known, philosophy. – Small pica, or philosophy, she said. It sounds like the title of a novel. With a girl heroine.”

“natural philosophy”

CEFR level