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alt=Photo of Auguste Rodin's statue The Thinker|thumb|The statue The Thinker by [[Auguste Rodin is a symbol of philosophical thought.|upright=1.1]]

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Philosophy is an academic discipline, major, and branch of science within the humanities. It is the study of condition, reality, and knowledge. The field is practiced by philosophers and utilizes philosophical method, philosophical analysis, common sense, and intuition. It is distinct from dogma and is characterized by interdisciplinarity and uncertainty.

The subject includes parts such as ontology, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of science. Its history encompasses Western philosophy and Eastern philosophy. The term was named by Pythagoras. Descriptions of the topic appear in sources including The Catholic Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, and The Nuttall Encyclopædia.

Philosophy is maintained by WikiProject Philosophy and is listed as a vital article. It is referenced by 16,448 other encyclopedia articles. PubMed records a count of 630,599 for the query philosophy. Lists of schools of philosophy and philosophies are available for the subject.

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Encyclopedic overview

24 sections
Contents
  • Etymology
  • Conceptions of philosophy
  • General conception
  • Academic definitions
  • History {{anchor|Historical overview}}
  • Western
  • Arabic–Persian
  • Indian
  • Chinese
  • Other traditions
  • Core branches
  • Epistemology
  • Ethics
  • Logic
  • Metaphysics
  • Other major branches
  • Methods
  • Relation to other fields
  • See also
  • References
  • Notes
  • Citations
  • Bibliography
  • External links

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Philosophy (from Ancient Greek philosophía ) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, knowledge, mind, reason, language, and value. It is a rational and critical inquiry that reflects on its methods and assumptions.

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