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philosophy
  1. (uncountable, originally) The love of wisdom.
  2. (uncountable) An academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism.
  3. (countable) A comprehensive system of belief.
  4. (countable) A view or outlook regarding fundamental principles underlying some domain.
  5. (countable) A general principle (usually moral).
  6. (archaic) A broader branch of (non-applied) science.
  7. (French printing, dated) Synonym of small pica.
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “Our company is built upon a philosophy that hard work equals results.”
      “I decided to study philosophy because I wanted to learn more about myself and the way the world works.”
      “Everything he does is approached with philosophy.”
philosopher
  1. (originally) A lover of wisdom.
  2. A student of philosophy.
  3. A scholar or expert engaged in or contributing to philosophical inquiry.
  4. (archaic) A person who applies the principles of philosophy to the conduct of their life.
  5. (archaic) A student, scholar, or expert in any branch of knowledge, especially those branches studied prior to being considered part of pure science.
  6. (obsolete) An alchemist.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “This is what the philosopher and aesthetician had in mind when he spoke of humor as a form of common sense.”
      “The philosopher David Hume had already subjected the argument from design to a devastating critique in the mid-18th century.”
      “With respect to theories, the philosopher cited as criteria of acceptability predictive power and testability.”
philosophizer
  1. A philosopher, a person who writes or reasons in philosophy.
  2. (pejorative) A person who creates superficial arguments or offers meaningless solutions, instead of practical ones.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “He has more in common with the rogue French poet Francois Villon, or the Persian poet Rumi, than the current breed of academic philosophizer that passes as poet these days.”
      “He is constantly a critic, and a philosophizer, if not a philosopher.”
philosophe
  1. Any of the leading philosophers or intellectuals of the 18th-century French Enlightenment.
  2. (pejorative) An incompetent philosopher; a philosophaster.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Both laughed a little, the philosophe feebly, and Aurora with an excited tremor.”
      “However harmless or healthful Joseph's touch might be to the philosophe, he felt now that hers, to him, was poisonous.”
      “She politely asks him whether he is not a philosophe, and whether philosophy is not a very beautiful thing?”
philosophunculist
  1. (rare) A minor or insignificant philosopher; someone who claims philosophical expertise that they do not possess. [from 19th c.]
  2. Examples:
    1. “However, you should never be a philosophunculist to succeed in your business ventures.”
philosophaster
  1. A pretender to philosophy; a petty or charlatan philosopher.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Yes, it's Ubermensch, strange visitor from another philosophaster.”
philosopheme
  1. (philosophy) A philosophical statement, theorem or axiom.
philosophism
  1. spurious philosophy; the love or practice of sophistry
  2. Examples:
    1. “Franklin owned to the fraud in Necker's house when he came to Paris, much to the confusion of French philosophism.”
      “The Feds alone still treat it as a philosophism, and would rejoice at its failure.”
      “And this is as true of architecture as it is of the other arts, and philosophism and scientism, the ultimate rationalizations.”
philosophation
philosophization
  1. Process or action of philosophizing.
philosophocracy
philosophress
philosophising
  1. Alternative form of philosophizing
philosophizing
philosophist
  1. One who pretends to be a philosopher.
philosophess
philosophicalness
philosophie
  1. Obsolete form of philosophy.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The title of his more comprehensive Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit also refers to the open-ended sketchiness of his system.”
      “Problema und Resultate der Wissenschaftstheorie und Analitischen Philosophie.”
philosopheress
  1. (rare) A female philosopher.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “A poet doesn't want to marry a poetess, nor a philosopher a philosopheress.”
philosophunculists
  1. plural of philosophunculist
  2. Examples:
    1. “The unsettled races of the north, constituting the Chartists, are Scotch philosophunculists and Irish savages, or the children of such.”
philosophizations
  1. plural of philosophization
philosophations
  1. plural of philosophation
philosophisings
  1. plural of philosophising
philosophasters
philosophizings
philosopheresses
philosophizers
philosophresses
philosophemes
  1. plural of philosopheme
philosophists
  1. plural of philosophist
philosophisms
  1. plural of philosophism
philosophesses
philosophers
  1. plural of philosopher
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It is intuitively plausible, yet many philosophers, especially pragmatists and Wittgensteinians, reject it.”
      “It seems to me that philosophers are often criticized for always demanding rational explanations.”
      “But the juryman votes for acquittal anyway, reflecting that philosophers sometimes err.”
philosophes
  1. plural of philosophe
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The philosophes of the Enlightenment were familiar with all of these arguments, trained as they were in the classics.”
      “The philosophes criticized the ancien regime of religious superstition and dogmatism, hidebound social traditions, and repressive morality.”
      “So it happened that the philosophes as a body were not theoretical sceptics merely but militant atheists.”
philosophies
  1. plural of philosophy
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The guqin music was also influenced by Chinese philosophies including Confucianism and Taoism.”
      “In it, he lumps together the several philosophies that have fallen under that label.”
      “Compatibilist philosophies seek to reconcile free will and determinism in a modern time.”
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