Philosophy

·noun A treatise on philosophy.

II. Philosophy ·noun Reasoning; argumentation.

III. Philosophy ·noun The course of sciences read in the schools.

IV. Philosophy ·noun A particular philosophical system or theory; the hypothesis by which particular phenomena are explained.

V. Philosophy ·noun Practical wisdom; calmness of temper and judgment; equanimity; fortitude; stoicism; as, to meet misfortune with philosophy.

VI. Philosophy ·noun 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.