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- noun Plural form of
cosmology .
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Examples
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Even if his proposal is unfalsifiable or inadequately supported, it still serves to highlight a problem that can pop up in cosmologies where the universe is eternal or extreme (infinite?) in number.
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Ms. Wertheim goes on to contrast the NPA gathering with a meeting of string theorists she attended in which such scientific supernovae as Stephen Hawking, Lisa Randall and Brian Greene spoke seriously about 11-dimensional universes and tried to pick between the 10,000 variants of string cosmologies.
On the Margins of Science Michael Shermer 2011
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In this context, Charlesworth's art of semiotic and linguistic signification provides a rare model for the process of eradicating language of undesirable homosocial inheritance, a process she begins by first extracting and isolating the male homosocial object-metaphors from the world's ideologies, myths, cosmologies, histories, and arts.
G. Roger Denson: Gender as Performance & Script: Reading the Art of Yvonne Rainer, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Charlesworth & Lorna Simpson After Eve Sedgwick & Judith Butler G. Roger Denson 2011
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In this context, Charlesworth's art of semiotic and linguistic signification provides a rare model for the process of eradicating language of undesirable homosocial inheritance, a process she begins by first extracting and isolating the male homosocial object-metaphors from the world's ideologies, myths, cosmologies, histories, and arts.
G. Roger Denson: Gender as Performance & Script: Reading the Art of Yvonne Rainer, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Charlesworth & Lorna Simpson After Eve Sedgwick & Judith Butler G. Roger Denson 2011
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He rejected what would later be known as Big Bang cosmologies as 'too unaesthetically abrupt.'
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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From the unromantically magical take on Ragnarøk in the lead story “Unbound” to the curious history of squid in “A Man of Kiri Maru”, this issue is steeped in mythos, making use of the old familiar tales and some new ones, mixing cosmologies from around the world – and from other worlds as well.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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From the unromantically magical take on Ragnarøk in the lead story “Unbound” to the curious history of squid in “A Man of Kiri Maru”, this issue is steeped in mythos, making use of the old familiar tales and some new ones, mixing cosmologies from around the world – and from other worlds as well.
365 tomorrows » Steve Smith : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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It never occurred to me that there would be other mythologies, other cosmologies and belief systems.
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From the unromantically magical take on Ragnarøk in the lead story “Unbound” to the curious history of squid in “A Man of Kiri Maru”, this issue is steeped in mythos, making use of the old familiar tales and some new ones, mixing cosmologies from around the world – and from other worlds as well.
365 tomorrows » Get GUD, GUD is Good : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Then again this notion of "ideas are real" goes back to cosmologies that begin with the priority of consciousness over matter, as in "In the beginning was the word, and the word was god, and the word was with god."
Jason Silva: Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants and the Evolution of the Noosphere Jason Silva 2011
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