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multiverse(n.)

1895年,威廉·詹姆斯创造了这个词,作为 universe 的替代词,旨在传达无序和不统一的概念。参见 multi- + universe

But those times are past; and we of the nineteenth century, with our evolutionary theories and our mechanical philosophies, already know nature too impartially and too well to worship unreservedly any god of whose character she can be an adequate expression. Truly all we know of good and beauty proceeds from nature, but none the less so all we know of evil. Visible nature is all plasticity and indifference, a moral multiverse, as one might call it, and not a moral universe. [William James, "Is Life Worth Living?" address to the Young Men's Christian Association of Harvard University, May 1895]
但那些时代已经过去了; 我们19世纪的人,凭借我们的进化理论和机械哲学,已经对自然有了太多的客观认识,以至于不能毫无保留地崇拜任何一个能够充分表达自然特征的神。确实,我们所知道的所有美好和美丽都来自于自然,但同样如此,我们所知道的所有邪恶也是如此。可见的自然界是完全可塑和冷漠的,可以称之为道德多元宇宙,而不是道德宇宙。[威廉·詹姆斯,《生命是否值得一过?》,哈佛大学基督教青年会演讲,1895年5月]

该词起源时间:1873年