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nouna belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
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"self-indulgence was his only philosophy" "my father's philosophy of child-rearing was to let mother do it"nounany personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situationtype of:
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nounthe rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethicstype of:
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