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- noun The world as seen in terms of the
attitudes ,belief systems, assumptions etc. of a given society or people.
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Examples
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In Philo's extreme thought-world the biblical description of Godhead could have been reinterpreted in terms of God's extension.
HANDS Across the Godhead? James F. McGrath 2010
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If one wants to immerse oneself in the thought-world of Jesus' contemporaries then the second temple literature will probably get you closer.
HANDS Across the Godhead? James F. McGrath 2010
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So is excising a single sentence from the thought-world expressed in numerous ancient texts and attributing to that sentence a meaning that would more likely occur to an Alan Dershowitz than an anxiety stricken poet.
The Inerrancy of Ecclesiastes 9:2-6 James F. McGrath 2010
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There is just no tool in the GOP kit, no paradigm in the modern conservative thought-world, ready to deal with this reality.
New Hampshire Towns Running Out Of Ballots, Especially For The Dems 2009
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By undertaking an investigation into the feeling, the thought-world of secularity both religious within secular and non-religious within secular, Taylor is light years ahead of the dumb faith-science debates.
Sri Aurobindo seeks synergy between religion and politics Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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By undertaking an investigation into the feeling, the thought-world of secularity both religious within secular and non-religious within secular, Taylor is light years ahead of the dumb faith-science debates.
Archive 2008-03-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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The brain indeed is one such evolved instrument that expresses itself through a certain type of thought-world.
A new kind of Monism Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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For to put the matter at its baldest, we live in a thought-world, and the thinking has gone very bad indeed.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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For to put the matter at its baldest, we live in a thought-world, and the thinking has gone very bad indeed.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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That was, after I'd waited ten units or so for him to come out of his thought-world.
Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992
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