Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The production or generation of nature.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The birth of nature.
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- noun The production or generation of nature.
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Examples
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Green's scale culminates in physiogony as a "history of nature" which, as "preface and portion of the history of man," makes the
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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Naturphilosophie and "physiology" (in Green 102-3), rather than with a radicalized "physiogony" as I am doing here.
Notes on ''The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)' 2008
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Second, -- the ignorance of natural science, their physiography scant in fact, and stuffed out with fables; their physiology imbrangled with an inapplicable logic and a misgrowth of 'entia rationalia', that is, substantiated abstractions; and their physiogony a blank or dreams of tradition, and such "intentional colours" as occupy space but cannot fill it.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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Or one could argue that the history shadowed in this text through the development of "freedom" in its most radical sense is a post-anthropological history that Schelling draws out of the physiogony of Robinet and Charles Bonnet. [
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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