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cosmological, a.|kɒzməʊˈlɒdʒɪkəl|
[f. Gr. κοσµολογικ-ός ‘touching physical philosophy’ (f. κόσµο-ς world + λογικός discoursing) + -al1.]
1. Of or pertaining to cosmology.
cosmological argument (for the existence of God): that form of proof which reasons from an actual existence, a contingent object of experience, to an absolutely necessary condition of that existence: see quot. 1867.
1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 140 The proof first mentioned..(the cosmological, I mean..)—presupposes the ontological. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 39 When Whiston first began his cosmological studies. 1867J. H. Stirling Schwegler's Hist. Philos. (ed. 8) 229 (Kant) The cosmological proof..If anything exists, there must exist an absolutely necessary being as its cause. But I myself at all events exist, therefore there exists also an absolutely necessary being as my cause [etc.]. 1881Ramsay in Nature No. 618. 420 Cosmological speculations.
2. cosmological constant = cosmical constant (see cosmical a. 6).
1928Phil. Mag. V. 835, λ is the cosmological constant. 1932A. Einstein & W. de Sitter in Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. XVIII. 213 Historically the term containing the ‘cosmological constant’ λ was introduced into the field equations in order to enable us to account theoretically for the existence of a finite mean density in a static universe. 1970Nature 28 Nov. 845/1 The cosmological constant acts so as to provide a gravitational force in local Newtonian co⁓ordinates that increases linearly with distance r from the local Newtonian origin. |