Toposophy

Quick meaning: Toposophy is a noun meaning (ethnology) A branch of ethnology that emphasizes the relationship between people and the place in which they live or from which they come.

Meaning

(ethnology) A branch of ethnology that emphasizes the relationship between people and the place in which they live or from which they come.

More Meanings

1. (philosophy) The idea that any intellectual subject can be treated as an independent topos which can be described and understood in purely mathematical terms.
2. (science fiction) A fictional science dealing with the theoretical problems and possibilities of attempts to extend and amplify one's mental potential, i.e. via technology, whether by humans, artificial intelligence or extraterrestrials.

Example Sentences

His speculations on the "toposophy" of Superior Artificial Intelligences can be read as a materialistic version of theosophy — a theosophy without a teleology.

Quantum toposophy also accommodates the feeling that quantum mechanics is so radical that not just the actors of clasical mechanics, but its whole stage must be replaced.

I hope it is clear by now that such networks of names signify not only the tracing of a mental map, but also the evocation of a sort of chorographic practice which results in the accumulation of immigrant capital or, as I mentioned above, place wisdom (toposophy).

Using a human ecological perspective, this essay argues for a reappraisal of indigeneity in a European context, drawing on an ethnology based on topography, topology and, fundamentally, toposophy to transcend the binary and trinary analytical confines of a world divided into Self, Other and, more recently also, Third.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include topoanalysis, topology, ontosophy, topolectology, ethnology, ergology.

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