OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 13869

philosophy

/fɪˈlɒ.sə.fi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
filosofía
An academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism, often attempting to provide explanations relating to general concepts such as existence and rationality.
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of phil…
Philosophy is often divided into five major branches: logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and aesthetics.