= ತತ್ತ್ವಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ.

philosophy - a) a search for a general understanding of values and reality by chiefly speculative rather than observational means; b) a discipline comprising as its core logic, aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology for the analysis of the principles underlying conduct, thought, knowledge, and the nature of the universe; c) pursuit of wisdom; d) a system of analysis of the grounds of and concepts expressing fundamental beliefs.