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Full Idea
There is an unlimited number of cosmoi, and some are similar to this one and some are dissimilar.
Gist of Idea
There are endless cosmoi, some like and some unlike this one
Source
Epicurus (Letter to Herodotus [c.293 BCE], 45)
Book Ref
Epicurus: 'The Epicurus Reader', ed/tr. Inwood,B. /Gerson,L. [Hackett 1994], p.8
Related Idea
Idea 14051 A cosmos is a collection of stars and an earth, with some sort of boundary, movement and shape [Epicurus]
395 | It seems possible that there exists a limited number of other worlds apart from this one [Aristotle] |
14036 | There are endless cosmoi, some like and some unlike this one [Epicurus] |
21111 | It seems likely that cosmic inflation is eternal, and this would make a multiverse inevitable [Krauss] |
22946 | The multiverse is distinct time-series, as well as spaces [Le Poidevin] |