• Great chain of being
• Self-indication assumption
• Self-sampling assumption
• Memetics theory
• Lexical hypothesis theory
• Posthumanism
• Ranking theory
• Russian cosmism

Great chain of being

The great chain of being is a hierarchical structure of all matter and life, thought by medieval Christianity to have been decreed by God. The chain begins with God and descends through angels, humans, animals and plants to minerals.It was believed that the King was divinely chosen by God. As God’s chosen representative on earth, the King was the supreme upholder of order on earth. If his position was violated

Lexical hypothesis theory

The lexical hypothesis is the idea that the most important differences between people will be encoded in the language that we use to describe people. Therefore, if we want to know which personality traits are most important, we can look to the language that people use to describe themselves and othersThe lexicalist hypothesis is a hypothesis proposed by Noam Chomsky in which he claims that syntactic transformations only can operate on syntactic constituents. It says that the system of grammar that assembles words is separate and different from the system of grammar that assembles phrases out of words.

Memetics theory

Memetics is a theory of the evolution of culture based on Darwinian principles with the meme as the unit of culture.

Posthumanism

Posthumanism differs from classical humanism by relegating humanity back to one of many natural species, thereby rejecting any claims founded on anthropocentric dominance. According to this claim, humans have no inherent rights to destroy nature or set themselves above it in ethical considerations a priori

Ranking theory

Russian cosmism

Russian cosmism, also cosmism, is a later term for philosophical and cultural movement that emerged in Russia at the turn of the 19th century, and again,