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  • noun Plural form of cosmos.

Etymologies

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From the Ancient Greek κόσμοι (kosmoi), the nominative plural form of κόσμος (kosmos), whence cosmos.

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Examples

  • (Dennett 1995, 179) Alternatively, couldn't it have been that at the Big Bang, there was enormous initial inflation, resulting in many cosmoi with many different settings for the physical constants?

    Religion and Science Plantinga, Alvin 2007

  • Examples can of course be multiplied: we often care about modal features of our lives (what could have been, and what would have been), but non-philosophers perhaps seldom even think about whether people much like them have different experiences in different cosmoi, let alone care deeply about such things.

    Modal Fictionalism Nolan, Daniel 2007

  • It might be thought that there are good arguments to show that possible worlds, if there are any such things, must be concrete cosmoi like the one in which we inhabit, and cannot be abstract objects, especially abstract objects like collections of Platonic propositions.

    Modal Fictionalism Nolan, Daniel 2007

  • Alternatively, there are many stories we could tell about other worlds (whether they are cosmoi or fictional abstract objects), and the question arises as to why one rather than any other be chosen to be the modal fiction.

    Modal Fictionalism Nolan, Daniel 2007

  • Your whole discussion is in,on,at,by the front or boundaries of science but both sides treat frontline theories of theoretical physics as solid ground(ie parallel cosmoi(universe = singular) )

    Divided by a common language: Richard Dawkins clarifies his position - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • So these lesser Beingnesses set out to explore their cosmoi - it is certainly feasible that THE ALL didn't break its Awareness into the lowest level all at once - but the lesser Beingnesses could run

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  • So these lesser Beingnesses set out to explore their cosmoi - it is certainly feasible that THE ALL didn't break its Awareness into the lowest level all at once - but the lesser Beingnesses could run

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  • So these lesser Beingnesses set out to explore their cosmoi - it is certainly feasible that THE ALL didn't break its Awareness into the lowest level all at once - but the lesser Beingnesses could run

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  • So these lesser Beingnesses set out to explore their cosmoi - it is certainly feasible that THE ALL didn't break its Awareness into the lowest level all at once - but the lesser Beingnesses could run Help for your Resolultion: Experts reveal health secrets for busy people

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  • So these lesser Beingnesses set out to explore their cosmoi - it is certainly feasible that THE ALL didn't break its Awareness into the lowest level all at once - but the lesser Beingnesses could run Nominees for 15th Annual SAG Awards

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