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Definition of Cosmological

1. Adjective. Pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe. "Cosmogonic theories of the origin of the universe"

2. Adjective. Pertaining to the branch of philosophy dealing with the elements and laws and especially the characteristics of the universe such as space and time and causality. "A cosmological argument is an argument that the universe demands the admission of an adequate external cause which is God"

Definition of Cosmological

1. a. Of or pertaining to cosmology.

Definition of Cosmological

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to cosmology, or to the overall structure of the universe ¹

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Definition of Cosmological

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cosmological

cosmographical cosmographically cosmographies cosmographist cosmographists cosmography cosmoi cosmolabe cosmolabes cosmolatry

cosmoline cosmolined cosmolines cosmolining cosmologic cosmological (current term) cosmological argument cosmological arguments cosmological city cosmological constant

cosmological decade cosmological horizon cosmological natural selection cosmological perturbation theory cosmological principle cosmological redshift cosmological scale cosmological term cosmologically cosmologies

Literary usage of Cosmological

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1901)
"Composition of Phenomena in the Universe Here, as well as in the case of the other cosmological problems, the ground of the regulative principle of reason ..."

2. Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: In Commemoration of the Centenary by Immanuel Kant (1896)
"THE ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON SECTION VII Critical Decision of the cosmological Conflict of Reason with itself The whole antinomy of pure reason rests on the ..."

3. Kant's Critical Philosophy for English Readers by Immanuel Kant (1889)
"The cosmological Idea.1 § 50. This product of pure Reason in its transcendent ... I term this Idea cosmological, because it only takes its objects from the ..."

4. The Philosophy of Religion on the Basis of Its History by Otto Pfleiderer (1888)
"It is easy to see that the first two of these arguments (the twofold cosmological and the teleological argument) answer in a wonderful way to the ..."

5. Recent British Philosophy: Including Some Comments on Mr. Mill's Answer to by David Masson (1877)
"cosmological DIFFERENCES. Thus have I traced down, to the exact point of its connexion with the British present, that struggle of the two opposed ..."

6. The Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics by John Bernhard Stallo (1884)
"A question necessarily preliminary to cosmological speculations of whatever kind has been extensively mooted, of late, by mathematicians and physicists ..."

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