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unphilosophy en · NOUN

Etymology

From un- + philosophy.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) That which is not philosophy.
    • Every single fall or rise of nature's work was kind to her, and led her into various veins of inductive unphilosophy. 1883, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Cripps, the Carrier: A Woodland Tale, page 150:
    • By the production of the semblance of indifference and the unknowingly yet arbitrarily chosen superstitious dependence, the indifference produced by unphilosophy goes precisely in this sense hand in hand with an increase of the dependence on the indifferent external things, which is why these things do not appear (or seem to be) indifferent any longer. 2023, Frank Ruda, Indifference and Repetition:

Relateds

unphilosopher

Synonyms

nonphilosophy