Synonyms for philosophy

Grammar : Noun

Spell : fi-los-uh-fee

Phonetic Transcription : fɪˈlɒs ə fi

Top 10 synonyms for philosophy

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Définition of philosophy

Origin : c.1300, "knowledge, body of knowledge," from Old French filosofie "philosophy, knowledge" (12c., Modern French philosophie) and directly from Latin philosophia and from Greek philosophia "love of knowledge, pursuit of wisdom; systematic investigation," from philo- "loving" (see philo-) + sophia "knowledge, wisdom," from sophis "wise, learned;" of unknown origin.
Nec quicquam aliud est philosophia, si interpretari velis, praeter studium sapientiae; sapientia autem est rerum divinarum et humanarum causarumque quibus eae res continentur scientia. [Cicero, "De Officiis"][Philosophical problems] are, of course, not empirical problems; but they are solved through an insight into the workings of our language, and that in such a way that these workings are recognized -- despite an urge to misunderstand them. The problems are solved, not through the contribution of new knowledge, rather through the arrangement of things long familiar. Philosophy is a struggle against the bewitchment (Verhexung) of our understanding by the resources of our language. [Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Philosophical Investigations," 1953]
Meaning "system a person forms for conduct of life" is attested from 1771.

noun principles, knowledge

Example sentences :

This so excited the admiration of Speusippus, that a love of philosophy was kindled within him.
Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child

I hope I'll have the old Bines philosophy and the young Bines spirit.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

The Church cannot be so more than the stage, or music more than philosophy.
Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

O that philosophy or philanthropy could but find it out and work it!
Extract from : « Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia » by Thomas Mitchell

Instead, it presents, what all too few of us to-day possess, a philosophy of life.
Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

Neither science, philosophy, history, nor poetry held for him any interest.
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

She challenged his philosophy and gave him a chance to defend it.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Only the arrival of Christine and her fiance saved his philosophy from complete rout.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

All philosophy that would abstract mankind from the present is no more than words.
Extract from : « Old News » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is a repository of knowledge as to early science and philosophy.
Extract from : « Understanding the Scriptures » by Francis McConnell

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