Definitions for world view
world view

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1. Weltanschauung, world viewnoun

   a comprehensive view of the world and human life

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1. world view

   A worldview or world-view or Weltanschauung is the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the whole of the individual's or society's knowledge, culture, and point of view. A worldview can include natural philosophy; fundamental, existential, and normative postulates; or themes, values, emotions, and ethics.

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1. World view

   A comprehensive world view is the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the entirety of the individual or society's knowledge and point-of-view, including natural philosophy; fundamental, existential, and normative postulates; or themes, values, emotions, and ethics. The term is a calque of the German word Weltanschauung, composed of Welt and Anschauung. It is a concept fundamental to German philosophy and epistemology and refers to a wide world perception. Additionally, it refers to the framework of ideas and beliefs through which an individual, group or culture interprets the world and interacts with it.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of world view in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of world view in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of world view in a Sentence

1. H.W. Mann:

   Negative programming. We write the programs. And we can rewrite the programs. If we drop the negative self- talk. If we drop the negative self- beliefs. If we drop the negative world view. Then we drop the negative programs. Think about the word negative. It refers to negative energy. What we put our energy into we create more of. Focusing on the negative is like praying for what we don’t want. If we stop putting energy into what we don’t want, then we stop creating it.

2. Mitt Romney:

   I think it's just in human nature to see things in a way that is consistent with your own world view and your sense of what's necessary for the preservation of your position of power, i don't know why I'm not afflicted to the same degree as perhaps others are in that regard. Maybe it's because I'm old and have done other things.

3. George Tita:

   People who believe that housing is bad, that crime is always up, they believe that based on their world view and dogma and not on facts, all we can do is provide unbiased, carefully-constructed data. At the end of the day, there are some people who don’t care about the facts.

4. Tom Jones:

   He is obsessed with pushing racially-divisive rhetoric and policies into every aspect of public life, if the Senate were to confirm him, they’d be giving an individual who advocated for racially segregated schools, opposed the civil rights laws of the 1960s, and who used his platform as a professor to indoctrinate young Americans in his divisive world view a seat at the highest levels of our federal government.

5. Doug Gross:

   Where the Christian conservatives get into trouble... is when they attempt to be exclusive, where you either share my world view or you’re going to go to hell. That’s not the approach you can take.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=world view
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_View
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=world view