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philosophy, n.
(philosophies)
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more info a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
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doctrine ism philosophical system philosophy school of thought
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doctrinal indoctrinate
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philosophical philosopher
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nuclear deterrence Kabbalism, Cabalism abolitionism absolutism amoralism animalism animism antiestablishmentarianism, antiestablishmentism asceticism contextualism creationism credo, creed divine right, divine right of kings dogma dualism dynamism epicureanism establishmentarianism, establishmentism ethicism expansionism formalism functionalism Girondism gospel gymnosophy imitation laissez faire, individualism internationalism unilateralism irredentism, irridentism literalism majority rule, democracy monism multiculturalism nationalism nationalism nihilism pacifism, pacificism, passivism pluralism populism presentism rationalism, freethinking reformism humanism, secular humanism humanism, humanitarianism egalitarianism, equalitarianism feminism reincarnationism secessionism secularism phenomenology philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory states' rights teaching, precept, commandment theological doctrine utilitarianism descriptivism descriptivism prescriptivism prescriptivism creed, religious doctrine, church doctrine, gospel millennium
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belief
more info the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics
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philosophy
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philosophical philosophical philosophic philosopher philosopher philosophize philosophise
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immanent, subjective transeunt, transient dianoetic, discursive presentational esthetic, aesthetic Aristotelianism, peripateticism deconstruction, deconstructionism empiricism, empiricist philosophy, sensationalism existentialism, existential philosophy, existentialist philosophy determinism formalism idealism intuitionism logicism materialism, physicalism mechanism mentalism nativism naturalism nominalism operationalism Platonism, realism pragmatism probabilism rationalism realism, naive realism relativism semiotics, semiology sensualism, sensationalism solipsism Stoicism subjectivism teleology vitalism final cause philosopher
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arts, liberal arts, humanistic discipline, humanities
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ethics, moral philosophy etiology, aetiology aesthetics, esthetics axiology law, jurisprudence, legal philosophy metaphysics dialectic logic epistemology transcendentalism, transcendental philosophy
more info any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation
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philosophy

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"self-indulgence was his only philosophy"
"my father's philosophy of child-rearing was to let mother do it"
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philosophical philosopher
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belief