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fɪˈlɒs ə fiphi·los·o·phy

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Princeton's WordNet2.2 / 13 votes

  1. doctrine, philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, ismnoun

    a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

    Synonyms:
    doctrine, philosophical system, school of thought, ism, philosophy

  2. philosophynoun

    the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics

    Synonyms:
    ism, philosophical system, school of thought, doctrine

  3. philosophynoun

    any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation

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

    Synonyms:
    ism, philosophical system, school of thought, doctrine

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Dictionary of English Synonymes3.3 / 4 votes

  1. philosophynoun

    Synonyms:
    science of causes or first principles, science of the absolute, the science of sciences

  2. philosophynoun

    Synonyms:
    principles (of any department of knowledge), laws

  3. philosophynoun

    Synonyms:
    hypothesis, theory, system, doctrine

PPDB, the paraphrase database3.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "philosophy":

    filosofía, philosophical, ethos, philo, thinking, philosopher, logic

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How to use Philosophy in a sentence?

  1. Seneca the Younger:

    Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

  2. Henry Ward Beecher:

    The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

  3. Henry David Thoreau:

    Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

  4. Toshiyuki Sakai:

    We are trying to modernize Japanese' washoku,' it has a long history but it is actually a very logical way of cooking food, so we take this philosophy of washoku but use the modern ingredients and techniques. From that we try to create new, modern Japanese food.

  5. Charles Peguy:

    A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.


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