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• Heidegger's concept of worldhood—see Being and Time I.3: "The Worldhood of the World"
• "a world is a system of purposes and meanings that organizes our activities and our identity, and within which entities can make sense to us"—Polt, R. (1999) Heidegger: An introduction [Cornell UP] p. 54.
• kosmos as "order, good order, orderly arrangement"
• Ecological systems theory (its systems as worlds)
• Hierocles's circles of concern (each circle a world) & cosmopolitanism
• Lugones, "Playfulness, 'World'-Traveling, and Loving Perception" (worlds as cultural constructions)
• Sean Carroll's poetic naturalism
• Vervaeke's salience landscape