Philosophy vs Ism - What's the difference?
philosophy | ism |
(uncountable, originally) The love of wisdom.
(uncountable) An academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism.
* 1661 , ,
(countable) A comprehensive system of belief.
(countable) A view or outlook regarding fundamental principles underlying some domain.
(countable) A general principle (usually moral).
(archaic) A broader branch of (non-applied) science.
To philosophize.
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An ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism.
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XV, ''Practical — Devotional
* 1965 , , Marxism, One Hundred Years in the Life of a Doctrine , p. 357,
* 1969 , Walter E. Minchinton, Mercantilism; System Or Expediency? , p. xi,
* 1986 , (Matthew Broderick) (as Ferris Bueller), :
* 1994 , Kenneth Kaye, Workplace Wars and How to End Them , p. 70,
Specifically , a form of discrimination, such as racism or sexism.
As nouns the difference between philosophy and ism
is that philosophy is the love of wisdom while ism is an ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism.As a verb philosophy
is to philosophize.As an abbreviation ISM is
abbreviation of w:Imperial Service Order|Imperial Service Medal|lang=en.philosophy
English
(wikipedia philosophy)Alternative forms
* philosophie (obsolete) * phylosophie (obsolete) * phylosophy (nonstandard)Noun
The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy , he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
Meronyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* analytic philosophy * antiphilosophy * continental philosophy * personal philosophy * philosophize * philosophy of mindVerb
- Plato hath (in my seeming) loved this manner of Philosophying , Dialogue wise in good earnest, that therby he might more decently place in sundry mouthes the diversity and variation of his owne conceits.
See also
* * ideologyism
English
Noun
(en noun)- […] his religion, his worship was like his daily bread to him; — which he did not take the trouble to talk much about; which he merely ate at stated intervals, and lived and did his work upon! This is ’s Catholicism of the Twelfth Century; — something like the Ism''''' of all true men in all true centuries, I fancy! Alas, compared with any of the '''''Isms current in these poor days, what a thing!
- An ism does not have to possess the fearful implements of state power to cut off a a deviant or heretical member.
- In his exposition, he has failed to achieve the identification of situation, theory, and policy necessary to create an ism .
- Isms' in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an ' ism – he should believe in himself.
- It is important to distinguish between an ism' and a mere generalization about group differences. Generalizations that have statistical validity are not '''isms'''. An ' ism assumes that the generalization applies to an individual.
