thought-world
See also: thoughtworld
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From thought + world. Compare German Gedankenwelt.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]thought-world (plural thought-worlds)
- The world as seen in terms of the attitudes, belief systems, assumptions etc. of a given society or people.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 256:
- What remains for scholars of Islam to achieve is the equivalent of Western Christian culture's patient analysis of the documents at the heart of Christian faith, to gain a clearer picture of the society and thought-world in which the Qur'an was created.
Translations
[edit]conceptual universe
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