a. [f. Gr. κοσμολογικ-ός ‘touching physical philosophy’ (f. κόσμο-ς world + λογικός discoursing) + -AL.] Of or pertaining to cosmology.
Cosmological argument (for the existence of God): that form of proof which reasons from an actual existence, a contingent object of experience, to an absolutely necessary condition of that existence: see quot. 1867.
1825. Coleridge, Aids Refl. (1848), I. 140. The proof first mentioned … (the cosmological, I mean …)—presupposes the ontological.
1830. Lyell, Princ. Geol., I. 39. When Whiston first began his cosmological studies.
1867. J. H. Stirling, Schwegler’s Hist. Philos. (ed. 7), 229. (Kant) The cosmological proof…. If anything exists, there must exist an absolutely necessary being as its cause. But I myself at all events exist, therefore there exists also an absolutely necessary being as my cause [etc.].
1881. Ramsay, in Nature, No. 618. 420/1. Cosmological speculations.
