(n.) The science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature.
Example Sentences:
(1) This conception of the city as an expression of both regal power and social order, guided by cosmological principles and the pursuit of yin-yang equilibrium, was unlike anything in the western tradition.
(2) Moreover, these notions take root within a coherent cosmological matrix which emphasizes the socially ordered flow of fertility fluids.
(3) A cult of healing through meditation that was observed in Bangkok, Thailand in 1974 is described, and the cult is interpreted in terms of two axes, the cosmological and the performative, and the dialectical, reciprocal and complementary relations between them.
(4) Low-alcohol-content fermented beverages are thoroughly enmeshed in the social, economic, commensal, and cosmological spheres of life among most peoples of sub-Saharan Africa.
(5) If the world of secrets is its own universe, here we have an expansion of the universe which brings to mind something cosmological.
(6) In the future, the same approach could be used to power self-driving cars, personal assistants in smartphones or conduct scientific research in fields from climate change to cosmology.
(7) "The overwhelming evidence from cosmology is there has to be something out there that is like dark matter, but that is the only statement we can make," said Pedro Ferreira , an astrophysicist at Oxford University.
(8) Definitive experimental tests will require that the theory also incorporate and improve upon the standard models of particle physics and cosmology.
(9) His career in cosmology began in 1970 when he joined a group, led by Nobel physics laureate Luis Alvarez at the University of California, Berkeley, that was using high-altitude balloons to look for signs of the antimatter that the big bang theory predicted should be abundant.
(10) Then with five elements of cosmology including three with dual-sense, as belonging to humorology, we have eight elements in all as cosmology-cum-humorology.
(11) The cosmologically oriented art of healing showing man in its original state (constitutio) its actual condition (destitutio) and the expected healthy final state (restitutio); 2.
(12) The cosmic elements of Chinese cosmology were Wood, Fire, Water, Earth and Metal.
(13) The various ramifications of the cosmology are discussed--the categorization of the cosmos itself as a hierarchical scheme, the relations between man and non-human forms of existence, the ideas concerning power and its manner of acquisition and use, the relation between power and restraint, etc.
(14) Ashker's journey from teenage tearaway to grizzled jailhouse scholar underpins a largely untold story of how Bobby Sands, Mayan cosmology, class-consciousness and the Arab spring inspired one of the biggest challenges to US penal policy in living memory.
(15) In the cosmology of that glamour, the place of women was in the spectator boxes reserved for the players’ intimates.
(16) Assumptions behind Siberian, particularly Khanty, shamanism are examined through analysis of training, seances and cosmology.
(17) For now at least, the standard model of cosmology, which describes a universe made up of ordinary and dark matter evolving according to the equations of gravity formulated originally by Einstein, including a mysterious cosmological constant term, is in excellent shape.
(18) We are dealing in both treatises with a medicine based on a cosmological principle.
(19) It is obvious that Air, so important in the cosmologies of India and Greece, is no where explicit in Chinese cosmology.
(20) According to David Bray, author of Social Space and Governance in Urban China , not only did the walled city “embody a complex array of cosmologically determined symbolic spaces, designed to reinforce the might of the emperor and his government, but also, in its simple grid design it provided the template for the ordering of everyday social life.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Night view of Changan Avenue, the 10-lane thoroughfare which slices east-west through the city.
Ontology
Definition:
(n.) That department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essential properties and relations of all beings, as such, or the principles and causes of being.
Example Sentences:
(1) Interpretation of PS places it at the border between the clinical psychiatric fields and the ontological problems of humanity and leads to the understanding not only of the morbid psychic phenomenon in general and of the suicide in particular, but also to the major reasons of the human being who is trapped critical circumstances.
(2) Ontological studies of thymic tissue demonstrated that the epitope recognized by this MAb was expressed before Day 14 of gestation, although the restricted subcapsular and medullar expression of 8.1.1 was not apparent until sometime after birth.
(3) This essay eschews reductionist, dualist, and identity-theory attempts to resolve this problem, and offers an ontology--"monistic dual-aspect interactionism"--for the biopsychosocial model.
(4) The sequential topographic development of nerve preceding NSE-taste bud cells in precise morphological locations, suggests that the ingress of precursor NSE-taste bud cells and their subsequent differentiation are contingent upon initial neural derived ontologic signals.
(5) This ontologic sequence was not affected by T cell depletion or antigen presentation on adult macrophages.
(6) Rather, such peritoneal invaginations and endometriosis may be ontologically related to a separate codevelopmental factor.
(7) Based on a phenomenological analysis of psychotic interpretation of the world concretism is supposed to represent an important mechanism of schizophrenic thinking: Schizophrenic concretism is the result of an ontological regression of cognitive functioning onto the archaic level of actional representation.
(8) Stopping here, though, is actually the action of a fool – because this conclusion naturally opens up further counterarguments to sandwich ontology that sandwich reactionaries invariably make in bad faith.
(9) It suggests the need for greater attention to subjective self-evaluated self-reported components of health status, specified here as "ontological" health.
(10) Philosophical-ontological questions about man's nature are answered implicitly in clinical practice.
(11) A dynamic, an ontological and a relational illness conception are depicted.
(12) Others have engaged the Hot Dog-Sandwich debate in the past, but they have not gone far enough in exploring the scope of sandwich ontology.
(13) In her essay, Mill criticizes Iglesias's Aristotelian analysis as being too static and abstract to use in an ontological assessment of human structure and development from fertilization to birth.
(14) An EA rosette technique is used to study ontological development and organ distribution of Fc(IgG) receptor-bearing lymphoid cells in normal CS White Leghorn chickens, and in OS chickens with spontaneous autoimmune thyroiditis.
(15) Three experiments assessed the possibility, suggested by Quine (1960, 1969) among others, that the ontology underlying natural language is induced in the course of language learning, rather than constraining learning from the beginning.
(16) The possibility of ontological reduction hinges on whether chromosomes have other important constituents than molecules.
(17) The concept is seen to arise as a consequence of the development of the modern ontological view of disease, the shift in the role ascribed to the nervous system and theoretical developments involving the explanation of psychoses through a descriptive language of psychopathology and bodily states.
(18) Five categories of questions provide a framework for the analysis: ontological, anthropological, ontical, epistemological, and pedagogical.
(19) Data discussed herein supports the contention that synaptic connections serve a central role in triggering the ontological cascade.
(20) But if we accept that a neat meal package of either hinged or wrapping breads or the classic two-slice model are the ontological bases for a sandwich, suddenly we must introduce new food to that classification – arepas, banh mi, a disruptive new egg roll out of Shanghai the size of a football or an infant.