world-picture

While all building stones for the [modern scientific] world-picture are furnished by the senses qua organs of the mind, while the world picture itself is and remains for everyone a construct of his mind and apart from it has no demonstrable existence, the mind itself remains a stranger in this picture, it has no place in it, it can nowhere be found in it.

September 13th, 2009 m_francis 2009

I almost certainly apply the wrong 'reading protocols' to books like this -- I want them to resolve into a world-picture that makes sense, like fantastic and science fictional worlds do.

REVIEW: The Bridge by Zoran Živković 2009

However, those quibbles aside, I am pleased that Hopkins acknowledge and takes as one of her primary arguments one of the things I love about Marlowe, which is that he is unique among Elizabethan dramatists is consistently placing the outsiders in his world-picture (the Jew, the Scythian warlord, the African queen, the Frenchman, the necromancer, the homosexual) in a subject position, and I give her mad props for saying that.

be the change that you want to see matociquala 2009

Generating wealth by your own effort – either by hard work, by talent, or by cleverness – makes for a nice world-picture.

Think Progress » Coal disaster company Massey Energy denied time off for miners to attend their friends’ funerals. 2010

But I never stopped thinking about Harrison’s riveting sentence, and then about eight years ago I took the plunge and committed myself to writing a magnum opus about the shift from the “witch universe” to our modern, scientific world-picture.

James Morrow discusses The Last Witchfinder 2010

The Weltbild tradition influenced the physicists Max Planck and Ernst Mach, who engaged in a heated debate about the precise character of the unified scientific world-picture, and culminated in the first two decades of the twentieth century with the work of Albert Einstein (Holton 1998).

The Unity of Science Cat, Jordi 2007

Newton himself, one hopes, accepted the Newtonian world-picture, and Newton proposed that God periodically adjusted the planetary orbits, which according to his calculations would otherwise gradually go awry.

Religion and Science Plantinga, Alvin 2007

Newtonian world-picture, according to which the universe is like a great machine proceeding according to the laws disclosed in science.

Religion and Science Plantinga, Alvin 2007

When J. J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof were writing Lost , they explicitly modeled it on a video-game world: An overarching mythology and a cohesive world-picture, slowly revealed through creepy exploration by the main characters.

Forget Film, Games Do Sci-Fi Best 2006

When J. J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof were writing Lost , they explicitly modeled it on a video-game world: An overarching mythology and a cohesive world-picture, slowly revealed through creepy exploration by the main characters.

Forget Film, Games Do Sci-Fi Best 2006