majority rule vs philosophy

majority rule and philosophy both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
majority rule	Yes	No	No	No
philosophy	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, philosophy is a hypernym of majority rule; that is, philosophy is a word with a broader meaning than majority rule:

majority rule: the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group
philosophy: a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

Other hypernyms of majority rule include doctrine, ism, philosophical system, school of thought.

majority rule (noun)	philosophy (noun)
the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group	the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics
	a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
	any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation