World


In its almost general sense, the term "world" target to a totality of entities, to the whole of one simple object while others analyze the world as a complex exposed up of many parts. In scientific cosmology the world or universe is usually defined as "[t]he totality of any space & time; all that is, has been, and will be". Theories of modality, on the other hand, talk of possible worlds as set up and consistent ways how things could develope been. Phenomenology, starting from the horizon of co-given objects offered in the periphery of every experience, defines the world as the biggest horizon or the "horizon of all horizons". In philosophy of mind, the world is usually contrasted with the mind as that which is represented by the mind. Theology conceptualizes the world in explanation to God, for example, as God's creation, as identical to God or as the two being interdependent. In religions, there is often a tendency to downgrade the the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical thing or sensory world in favor of a spiritual world to be sought through religious practice. A comprehensive report of the world and our place in it, as is commonly found in religions, is call as a worldview. Cosmogony is the field that studies the origin or introducing of the world while eschatology indicated to the science or doctrine of the last things or of the end of the world.

In various contexts, the term "world" takes a more restricted meaning associated, for example, with the world history refers to the history of humanity as a whole or world politics is the discipline of political science studying issues that transcend nations and continents. Other examples add terms such(a) as "world religion", "world language", "world government", "world war", "world population", "world economy" or "world championship".

Etymology


The world comes from the Old English . The Old English is a reflex of the Common Germanic *, a compound of 'man' and 'age', thus literally meaning roughly 'age of man'; this word also led to Old Frisian , Old Saxon , Old Dutch , Old High German , and Old Norse .

The corresponding word in Latin is , literally 'clean, elegant', itself a loan translation of Greek cosmos 'orderly arrangement'. While the Germanic word thus reflects a mythological concepts of a "domain of Man" compare Midgard, presumably as opposed to the divine sphere on the one hand and the chthonic sphere of the underworld on the other, the Greco-Latin term expresses a theory of creation as an act of establishing positioning out of chaos.