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philosophy The academic discipline concerned with making explicit the nature and significance of ordinary and scientific beliefs and investigating the intelligibility of concepts by means of rational argument concerning their presuppositions, implications, and interrelationships; in particular, the rational investigation of the nature and structure of reality (metaphysics), the resources and limits of knowledge (epistemology), the principles and import of moral judgment (ethics), and the relationship between language and reality (semantics) (一个学科，研究自然的性质和科学的信念及其普世意义，将调查结果作为理性的论据和前提，特别是对现实的性质和结构原理的调查(形而上学)，资源和知识的限制(认识论)，原则和道德判断(伦理)，以及语言与现实(语义)。) |
