cosmological

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  1. Pertaining or relating to cosmology. A comparison between the probable meaning of the Proem to Genesis and the results of cosmological and geological science. Gladstone, Pop. Sci. Mo., XXVIII. 618.
  2. Cosmological proof that proof of theism which rests on the principle of efficient causation. According to Caldecott there are nine forms of this argument, as follows: (1) from the world as a mass of effects, an argument used (says Caldecott) by Aristotle, Aquinas, Locke, Clarke, Martineau, and Illingworth;
  3. (2) from the changes in the world, used by Aristotle and Martineau;
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  • And I would link that to something called the cosmological constant. —  Amy Tan on creativity
  • The latest evidence shows strongly that the quasars are truly "cosmological" objects. —  BEN BOVA Editor
  • Newton, troubled by this, avoided cosmological issues. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 01 - July 1995
  • These can give (depending on cosmological, mathematical models) estimates of how long a dense universe would take to expand, reverse, and collapse back to a point. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 01 - July 1995
  • Author's description of Calcutta, India; Reference to cosmological issues and interpretations of quantum mechanics; Connection of modern physics to age-old doctrines from the major Asian Faiths; Definition of natural and aesthetic to a physicist AN: 80083 ISSN: 1095-8258 Database: Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Section: A SCIENTIST'S NOTEBOOK COLLIDING CULTURES Calcutta was a dry dust bowl simmering beneath a perpetual gray haze. —  F ;SF - vol 093 issue 03 - September 1997
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  1. As F. cosmologique = Spanish cosmológico = Portuguese Italian cosmologico, from Greek κοσμολογικός, pertaining to physical philosophy, from *κοσμολογία: see cosmology and -ical.
 

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