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- noun Plural form of
worldview .
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Examples
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More to the point, I am not sure that Smith regards these three periods as developmental stages -- which he calls worldviews -- that build and expand upon each other in a hierarchical manner.
Huston Smith - Why Religion Matters (1) William Harryman 2007
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The downside of these rationalizations for protecting personal worldviews is that they can extend to politically and/or physically attacking those who would challenge them.
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Now I think it can be proven, by reason, that one of these worldviews is more coherent than the other.
Matthew Yglesias » Jessica Valenti on Anti-Feminists and So-Called “Hook-up Culture” 2009
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The downside of these rationalizations for protecting personal worldviews is that they can extend to politically and/or physically attacking those who would challenge them.
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Anchored in worldviews held by early Bantu ancestors, Ruvu descendants believed that bringing together manual dexterity and knowledge with the support of ancestor spirits converted latent power into materialized power.
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This is because Bantu people, like people generally, conceptualized their worldviews from the foundational way they explained the cosmos.
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The overthrow of the animistic worldviews is seen as a hostile act of aggression by those who would rather live in the widernesses of informal, nominative symbols resonant with intent, with divine power.
Archive 2007-03-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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The overthrow of the animistic worldviews is seen as a hostile act of aggression by those who would rather live in the widernesses of informal, nominative symbols resonant with intent, with divine power.
The Eternal Moment of Modernity Hal Duncan 2007
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Of course, since I†™ ve defined all LEFTISM as evil, then the only way to “reconcile†our worldviews is to utterly destroy LEFTISTS.
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Or even worse yet an appeal that whole groups who hold certain worldviews are ignorant, stupid, or incorrigible somehow.
The Memory Hole 2005
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