toposophy

Noun

toposophy (uncountable)

1. A branch of ethnology that emphasizes the relationship between people and the place in which they live or from which they come.
   • 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).2005, Mauro Peressini, Ratiba Hadj-Moussa, The Mediterranean Reconsidered
   • 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...2014, Ullrich Kockel, “Towards an Ethnology Beyond Self, Other and Third: Toposophical Explorations”, in Tradicija ir dabartis, volume 9
2. The idea that any intellectual subject can be treated as an independent topos which can be described and understood in purely mathematical terms.
   • His speculations on the "toposophy" of Superior Artificial Intelligences can be read as a materialistic version of theosophy — a theosophy without a teleology.1986, Science-fiction Studies - Volume 13, page 250
   • The practice of topos theory quickly spawned an associated philosophy—jocularly known as “toposophy”— whose chief tenet is the idea that, like a model of set theory, any topos may be taken as an autonomous universe of discourse or “world” in which mathematical concepts can be interpreted and...2005, John L. Bell, “The development of categorical logic”, in Handbook of philosophical logic
3. 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.