Philosophy

• Love and pursuit of wisdom by intellectual means and moral self-discipline.
• Investigation of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning rather than empirical methods.
• A system of thought based on or involving such inquiry: the philosophy of Hume.
• The critical analysis of fundamental assumptions or beliefs.
• The disciplines presented in university curriculums of science and the liberal arts, except medicine, law, and theology.
• The discipline comprising logic, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and epistemology.
• A set of ideas or beliefs relating to a particular field or activity; an underlying theory: an original philosophy of advertising.
• A system of values by which one lives: has an unusual philosophy of life.

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