Philosophy

1. Reasoning; argumentation.
2. Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws.
3. A treatise on philosophy.
4. Practical wisdom; calmness of temper and judgment; equanimity; fortitude; stoicism; as, to meet misfortune with philosophy.
5. A particular philosophical system or theory; the hypothesis by which particular phenomena are explained.
6. The course of sciences read in the schools.