Worldview

Overview
A rough attempt to delineate the difference between worldview and other related concepts:
 * worldviews: different styles of thinking about reality
 * ideologies: particular organized sets of beliefs about reality
 * religion: any of a large number of mystically-oriented ideologies
 * (list of religions can go here)
 * science: a particular ideology which values observation and rational analysis
 * postmodernism: a quasi-ideology which asserts that reality is a social construct

...or should it be:


 * worldviews: different styles of thinking about reality
 * empirical: worldviews primarily valuing observation and analysis
 * science: a worldview which values observation and rational analysis
 * postmodernism: a worldview which asserts that reality is a social construct
 * mystical: worldviews primarily valuing reflection and intuition
 * religion: any of a large number of mystically-oriented ideologies
 * (list of religions can go here)

...or does "postmodernism" belong under mystical, since most of the "analysis" is more intuitive than logical? Perhaps this is really a multi-dimensional spectrum, as in quantifying political ideologies.

...and how does "philosophy" (as in "3 a : a system of philosophical concepts b : a theory underlying or regarding a sphere of activity or thought &lt;the philosophy of war&gt;; 4 a : the most basic beliefs, concepts, and attitudes of an individual or group m-w.com) fit in with this scheme?

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