philosophy   (Sound)

The noun philosophy has 3 senses

• doctrine, philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, ism -- (a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school)


• philosophy -- (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)


• philosophy -- (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")