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Similarly, Ptolemy had demonstrated that no homocentric planetary system could account for the observed phenomena, but philosophers were still trying to produce such a system well into the sixteenth century.

This is a homocentric cause: We are valuing the characteristics of animals that are similar to humans.

Harari’s larger contention is that our homocentric creed, devoted to human liberty and happiness, will be destroyed by the approaching post-humanist horizon.

Meanwhile the Church was developing the homocentric notion which would, of course, presuppose the central position in the universe for man's abiding place.

Greatest among these fostered evolutions, from the homocentric point of view, are the living, the sentient, and the thinking kingdoms that have grown up with the later phases of the physical evolution.