Philosophy is a word used to describe things. The word has meaning in and of itself. It is not a proper noun. You are attempting to make a word that means somet

Philosophy is a word used to describe things. The word has meaning in and of itself. It is not a proper noun. You are attempting to make a word that means something already, mean something specific, and it's not working. Would you not classify al-jabr as mathematics simply because 'mathematics' describes western manipulations and not Arabic ones? Of course not. Mathematics means a certain thing in the English language, and al-jabr (which we call algebra) falls under that category. I'm sure other cultures have a word that denotes things like Western philosophy, and they apply that word to people like Aristotle. However, HN is a mainly english website, and so philosophy refers to any field that concerns itself with knowledge.