Definitions
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- noun A world or reality on a
larger scale , thus for example the social scale when discussing individual affairs, or the human scale when discussing particle physics.
Etymologies
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macro- + world
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Examples
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The realist claim is that the scientist is discovering the structures of the world; it is not required in addition that these structures be imaginable in the categories of the macroworld.
Structural Realism Ladyman, James 2009
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This world, ruled by the laws of quantum physics, displays many spectacular phenomena not normally observable in the macroworld.
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But in the macroworld, cats are either dead or alive.
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(Lately, this standard picture has fallen into disfavor because, in nanotechnology, we can smoothly go from the macroworld and microworld and we do not encounter any wall.
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