PHILOSOPHY
\fɪlˈɒsəfi], \fɪlˈɒsəfi], \f_ɪ_l_ˈɒ_s_ə_f_i]\
Definitions of PHILOSOPHY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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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.
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A particular philosophical system or theory; the hypothesis by which particular phenomena are explained.
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Practical wisdom; calmness of temper and judgment; equanimity; fortitude; stoicism; as, to meet misfortune with philosophy.
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The course of sciences read in the schools.
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A treatise on philosophy.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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A particular philosophical system or theory; the hypothesis by which particular phenomena are explained.
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Practical wisdom; calmness of temper and judgment; equanimity; fortitude; stoicism; as, to meet misfortune with philosophy.
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The course of sciences read in the schools.
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A treatise on philosophy.
By Noah Webster.
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A love or pursuit of wisdom. A search for the underlying causes and principles of reality. (Webster, 3d ed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The knowledge of the principles that cause, control, or explain facts and events: calmness of temper; practical wisdom.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The knowledge of the causes of all phenomena: the collection of general laws or principles belonging to any department of knowledge: reasoning: a particular philosophical system.
By Daniel Lyons
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Knowledge of phenomena in their relations of causes and effects, and the laws governing these; rational wisdom; any philosophical system.
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Philosophic, philosophical.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The application of pure thought to the explanation of things, or the rationally thought-out explanation of things; a particular philosophic system; a scientific explanation; reasoning; investigation of the phenomena of mind and matter; argumentation.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The science which investigates the causes of all phenomena both of mind and of matter; the knowledge of things natural and moral founded upon reason and experience; reasoning; course of sciences read in the schools.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
