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  • ...GLADSTONE Homeric Synchr. 221 It throws..a most important light on Homer's cosmology. b. Philos. That branch of metaphysics which deals with the idea of the world as a totality of all [[phenomena]] i
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  • '''Cosmology''', from the [[Greek language|Greek]]: ...its totality, and by extension, humanity's place in it. Though the word ''cosmology'' is recent (first used in 1730 in [[Christian Wolff (philosopher)|Christia
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  • ...l key questions in cosmology. The MAP website has excellent information on cosmology and provides a visual reference for the universe. ==Metaphysics==
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  • .... "Metaphysician" is, counterintuitively, the name of someone that studies metaphysics, not metaphysicist. A central branch of metaphysics is [[ontology]], the investigation into what types of things there are in t
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  • ...philosophy, specialties within the field are more commonly divided into [[metaphysics]], [[epistemology]], [[ethics]] and [[aesthetics]] (which together comprise ...f mind]] — which is, strictly speaking, mainly a sub-discipline of [[metaphysics]] — has taken on this position within [[Analytic philosophy]], and ha
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  • ...r to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism pantheistic] concepts of metaphysics or to the sometime ether [[hypothesis]] of [[science]]. The Unqualified Abs [[Category: Cosmology]]
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  • ...rstand those motions. This is now called [[celestial mechanics]]. Physical cosmology, as it is now understood, began with the twentieth century development of [ ...sts generally agree that the big bang best explains observations. Physical cosmology, roughly speaking, deals with the very largest objects in the universe ([[g
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  • ...ith the new science that combines technology, psychology, metaphysics, and cosmology. ...sily comprehensible. It will require an educated humanity in the fields of cosmology, technology, and science. It is for this reason that medical technologies i
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  • ...n Classical Greek literature, with the meaning "discourse on the gods or [[cosmology]]".<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1 ...du.au/mirror/classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/metaphysics.6.vi.html Aristotle, ''Metaphysics'', Book Epsilon.]</ref>
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  • ...and existence is dependent on the simple and immaterial monads. Leibniz's cosmology, with its central monad, embraced a traditional Christian [[Theism]] and wa ...tical action. McTaggart "..;thought that Hegel was wrong in supposing that metaphysics could show that the state is more than a means to the good of the individua
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  • ...North_Whitehead Alfred North Whitehead] ''Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology'', ISBN 0-02-934570-7 *1981–82 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Murdoch Iris Murdoch] ''Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals'', ISBN 0-14-017232-7
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  • ...the [[product]] of the [[rationalistic]] [[speculations]] of a [[material cosmology]], it is, nonetheless, the [[creation]] of a wholly [[rational]] [[insight] ...[[reality]] of a [[God]] who fosters [[personality]] [[survival]]. What [[metaphysics]] fails utterly in doing, and what even [[philosophy]] fails partially in d
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  • *Cosmology (The Cosmos of personal beings) ...jective world is nothing but a bubble, an illusion. And indeed some entire metaphysics have considered it to be that. The world is a Maya--an illusion from which
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  • ...ariety of [[origin belief]]s), the nature of the [[universe]] ([[religious cosmology]]) and its [[ultimate fate of the universe|ultimate fate]] ([[eschatology]] The core philosophical disciplines are [[logic]], [[ontology]] or [[metaphysics]], [[epistemology]], and [[axiology]], which includes the branches of [[eth
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  • ...ific]] distinction between cosmological and cosmogonical ideas. [[Physical cosmology]] is the science that attempts to explain all [[observation]]s relevant to ...also compared the question of the origin of life - as well as many other [[metaphysics|metaphysical]] questions - to the parable of the poison arrow: a man is sho
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  • ...sed on metaphysics, yes, as well as speculation and a new understanding of cosmology.
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  • ...for the solace of the [[soul]] in deep [[thinking]]— [[philosophy]] and [[metaphysics]]. They turned from the [[contemplation]] of [[self]]-[[preservation]]—[[ ...nd [[philosophic]] cast and [[structure]] of the [[dogmas]], tenets, and [[cosmology]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_civilization Hellenized
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  • ...sort is often corrupted into mere jokes: some Nasrudin tales have a clear metaphysics built in, while others have devolved into little more than depictions of a ...eality," with human knowledge limited to the latter, the field of ontology/metaphysics concerned itself with the overall structure or nature of reality. Afterword
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  • The 1870's text does not have sections on universe cosmology beyond the local universe, although ...se up against any attempt to teach them the truth of universe life and the cosmology
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  • ...in profound change to all sectors of the population. It conjoins science, metaphysics, art, and the superuniverse, placing humanity in a position to embrace all ...The interface is too far beyond both your technology and understanding of cosmology, and no planetary system can be fitted to interface with SIN until it is ab
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