All of us have probably spoken and written the word “philosophy” at various times in our lives.  It might have been when we were teenagers or young adults, at a time when we strove to more clearly define our individual identities by expounding on “our philosophy”, possibly to receive an adult eye-roll in response.  It might have been in college, when we took “Introduction to Philosophy” as an undergraduate.  (I did, and I got the worst grade of my entire college career, but that is another story.  I think I was too young to get it.)  Or it might have been when we encountered the term in studying the foundations of a formalized belief system.

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