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cosmogonical

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cos·mog·o·ny  (kz-mg-n)
n. pl. cos·mog·o·nies
1. The astrophysical study of the origin and evolution of the universe.
2. A specific theory or model of the origin and evolution of the universe.

cosmo·gonic (-m-gnk), cosmo·goni·cal adj.
cosmo·goni·cal·ly adv.
cos·mogo·nist n.
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Adj.1.cosmogonical - pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe; "cosmologic science"; "cosmological redshift"; "cosmogonic theories of the origin of the universe"


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His catalogue is also followed by the shift to the description of another level, the cosmogonical moment when the Chaos of unlimited possibilities has not yet received the form of Cosmos.
The exchange between combinatorics and metaphysics is an excellent illustration of this double movement: did not Ibn Sina give, on the basis of his ontological and cosmogonical conceptions, a formulation of the doctrine of the emanation from the One?
As with the theological cosmogonical, the iterable nature of the mark predicts the impossibility of cosmology finding a pure beginning of the universe and of reconciling everything in a unified theory.
 
 
 
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