philosophy : Idioms & Phrases

• or Doctrine of atoms, a system which assuming that atoms are endued with gravity and motion accounted thus for the origin and formation of all things. This philosophy was first broached by Leucippus, was developed by Democritus, and afterward improved by Epicurus, and hence is sometimes denominated the Epicurean philosophy.

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• that which attempts to account for the phenomena of nature, by the motion, figure, rest, position, etc., of the minute particles of matter.

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• the metaphysical system of Kant; so called from his most important work, the "Critique of Pure Reason. "

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• noun the academic department responsible for teaching philosophy
  department of philosophy.
  

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• noun a doctorate awarded for original contributions to knowledge
  

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• noun (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
  sensationalism; empiricism.
  

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• . See Atomic philosophy, under Atomic.

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• noun (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves
  existentialism; existential philosophy.
  

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• noun (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves
  existentialism; existential philosophy.
  

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• . See Philosophical induction, under Induction.

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• noun the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
  law; jurisprudence.
  

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• the principles of mechanics applied to the inverstigation of physical phenomena.

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• noun the philosophical study of moral values and rules
  ethics.
  

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• the science of duty; the science which treats of the nature and condition of man as a moral being, of the duties which result from his moral relations, and the reasons on which they are founded.

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• noun the science of matter and energy and their interactions
  physics.
  
  • his favorite subject was physics

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• originally, the study of nature in general; in modern usage, that branch of physical science, commonly called physics, which treats of the phenomena and laws of matter and considers those effects only which are unaccompanied by any change of a chemical nature; contrasted with mental and moral philosophy.

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• the philosophy of Sir Isaac Newton; applied to the doctrine of the universe as expounded in Newton's "Principia," to the modern or experimental philosophy (as opposed to the theories of Descartes and others), and, most frequently, to the mathematical theory of universal gravitation.

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• noun the academic department responsible for teaching philosophy
  department of philosophy.
  

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• that of Plato, who taught his disciples in a grove in Athens called the Academy.

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• that of Epicurus, who taught in a garden in Athens.

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• that of Aristotle, the founder of the Peripatetic school, who delivered his lectures in the Lyceum at Athens.

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• that of Zeno and the Stoics; so called because Zeno of Citium and his successors taught in the porch of the Poicile, a great hall in Athens.

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Phys`i*co-phi*los"o*phy noun

Etymology

Physico- + philosophy.

Definitions

1. The philosophy of nature.

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• . See Positivism.

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• the philosophy expressed by hieroglyphics.

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• noun any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
  transcendentalism.
  

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