(philosophies)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Philosophy is the study or creation of theories about basic things such as the nature of existence, knowledge, and thought, or about how people should live.
He studied ~ and psychology at Cambridge.
...traditional Chinese ~.
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A ~ is a particular set of ideas that a philosopher has.
...the philosophies of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
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A ~ is a particular theory that someone has about how to live or how to deal with a particular situation.
The best ~ is to change your food habits to a low-sugar, high-fibre diet...
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