philosophy vs mechanism

philosophy and mechanism both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
philosophy	Yes	No	No	No
mechanism	Yes	No	No	No

philosophy (noun)	mechanism (noun)
the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics	the technical aspects of doing something
a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school	device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function
any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation	(philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes
	a natural object resembling a machine in structure or function
	the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction