philosophy
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                    Noun
                    
                a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
                
                    Noun
                    
                the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics
                
                    Noun
                    
            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"
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                    abolitionism
                    absolutism
                    aesthetics
                    aetiology
                    amoralism
                    animalism
                    animism
                    antiestablishmentarianism
                    antiestablishmentism
                    asceticism
                    axiology
                    Cabalism
                    church doctrine
                    commandment
                    contextualism
                    creationism
                    credo
                    creed
                    democracy
                    descriptivism
                    dialectic
                    divine right
                    divine right of kings
                    dogma
                    dualism
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                    egalitarianism
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                    epistemology
                    equalitarianism
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                    establishmentism
                    esthetics
                    ethicism
                    ethics
                    etiology
                    expansionism
                    feminism
                    formalism
                    freethinking
                    functionalism
                    Girondism
                    gospel
                    gymnosophy
                    humanism
                    humanitarianism
                    imitation
                    individualism
                    internationalism
                    irredentism
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                    jurisprudence
                    Kabbalism
                    laissez faire
                    law
                    legal philosophy
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                    logic
                    majority rule
                    metaphysics
                    millennium
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                    multiculturalism
                    nationalism
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                    nuclear deterrence
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                    reformism
                    reincarnationism
                    religious doctrine
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                    secular humanism
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                    states'' rights
                    teaching
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                    transcendentalism
                    unilateralism
                    utilitarianism