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S: (n) philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)

S: (n) ethics, moral philosophy (the philosophical study of moral values and rules)
S: (n) etiology, aetiology (the philosophical study of causation)
S: (n) aesthetics, esthetics ((art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art)) "traditional aesthetics assumed the existence of universal and timeless criteria of artistic value"
S: (n) axiology (the study of values and value judgments)
S: (n) jurisprudence, law, legal philosophy (the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do)
S: (n) metaphysics (the philosophical study of being and knowing)
S: (n) dialectic (any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments)
S: (n) logic (the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference)
S: (n) epistemology (the philosophical theory of knowledge)
S: (n) transcendentalism, transcendental philosophy (any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material)