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Cosmology is "the branch of philosophy dealing with the origin and general structure of the universe, with its parts, elements, and laws, and especially with such of its characteristics as space, time, causality, and freedom" 1.

1. cosmology. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged. Retrieved June 27, 2011, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cosmology

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How is concept of Nature different from a concept like God?

I have regularly noticed people using words "Nature, Natural" to describe events, objects etc. Sometimes to denote contrast from "Artificial" origin, sometimes by atheists to refute "Intelligent Design" ideas, and sometimes to just convey "its the…
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Is the idea that people believed in a flat Earth in ages past grounded in historical documents?

My question about this answer was tangential, but I'm very curious to know where the idea comes from that people believed in a flat Earth. For example, were there Greek philosophers that held this view, and made arguments for it? Or is this an idea…
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What are the relationships between the classical elements?

I cannot find in sources of Empedocles the actual relations between all of the 4 elements. He stated that everything is in some relation to each other as being in love (i.e. positive, attracting) or strife (negative, repulsing). The question is: how…
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According to Wikipedia, science can be divided into empirical science (such as natpirical s

According to Wikipedia, science can be divided into empirical science (such as natural science and social science) and formal science (such as mathematics, logic, statistics). I was wondering if philosophy belongs to empirical science or formal…
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How something came from nothing.

I am not sure whether I am asking this question at the right site of Stack Exchange. If one thinks of a time when there was nothing in this void (I would not even say “in this universe” because the thought of “visualising as to what was there,…
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