&gt; The place we live, planet earth?<p>I see each of us, and in turn our communities, living in <i>parts</i> of planet Earth, and to my underlying point, having, similar to our dictionary meanings[0,1], varied and overlapping views.  Some of these terms&#x27; meanings have a narrow view and another a wide one, for instance: 1) &quot;A particular group of living things&quot;, then &quot;All that relates to a particular sphere of activity&quot;, and 2) &quot;Human and social interaction&quot;, then &quot;A particular region or group of countries&quot;, and 3) &quot;The Earth&quot;, then &quot;The Universe&quot;, and 4) &quot;Human collective existence&quot;, then &quot;Existence in general.&quot;.  Take for example a derived term, &#x27;worldview&#x27;.  Would this necessarily have something to do with Earth?  Would it better fit &quot;An individual or group perspective or social setting&quot; and &quot;Age, era&quot;?<p>Etymologically, `world` comes from Proto-Germanic <i>weraz</i> +‎ <i>aldiz</i> (man, husband + age, generation, lifetime), and before that Proto-Indo-European <i>wiHrós</i> + <i>h₂el</i>.  These terms meant to our linguistic ancestors, &quot;hunt, warrior, hero&quot; + “to raise, feed, nourish”.  We would still have `Earth`, `Universe`, `place`, etc to use if we focused `world` on a concept more to do with something emerging from experience, as it seems to in logic (a subset of logic that, imho, has well-founded roots).  I believe logically it benefits a mind to make this conceptual leap so as to capably see multiple points of view and to recognize limits and strengths in any particular one or group within a whole.<p>Paradoxically, the many are the one, so to speak, or whole is its parts (ping Da Vinci).  Some minds break on this point, some bend around it.  Every report I have ever seen comes from some point of view.<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;world" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;world</a><p>1: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oxforddictionaries.com&#x2F;definition&#x2F;english&#x2F;world" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oxforddictionaries.com&#x2F;definition&#x2F;english&#x2F;world</a>