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Idios kosmos
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Idios kosmos comes from Greek and means private world. It exists with, and is opposite to, koinos kosmos (shared world). Idios kosmos is the view of the world that is developed from personal experience and knowledge and is therefore unique; however, it can be difficult to tell the difference between it and koinos kosmos. The two phrases come from the Diels-Kranz fragment B89 of Heraclitus: ("Heraclitus said that the waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own.") The idea of idios kosmos is an important part of Philip K. Dick's views on schizophrenia, as expressed in his 1964 essay "Schizophrenia & 'The Book of Changes'", drawing on personal experience with the I Ching.

See also
Personal construct psychology Personal construct theory

References
Philip K. Dick: Electric Shepherd, Melbourne: Norstrilia Press, 1975, pp. 3132 idios kosmos at everything2.com (http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=idios%20kosmos) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Idios_kosmos&oldid=487738628" Categories: Classical Greek philosophy Philosophy stubs This page was last modified on 16 April 2012 at 21:53. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.

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