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This work presents a brief and non-technical description of the main resultsand concepts of the modern scientific cosmology, viewing it from anepistemological perspective which allows a dialog with other modes of thinkinglike e.g. history, philosophy, sociology and religion. This epistemologicalviewpoint is based on the philosophical theses advanced by Ludwig Boltzmann(1844-1906) which states that scientific theories are nothing more thanrepresentations, or images, of nature (arXiv:physics/0701308v1). By beingrepresentations one cannot know how nature really is because the intrinsic andindispensable properties that characterize nature are unreachable by science.In other words, the true essences that constitute nature are unknowable.Therefore, all answers proposed by science are partial, simplified andreplaceable. Another way of putting forward this viewpoint is to state that allscientific truths are provisional, a result which naturally leads to theconclusion that the same set of phenomena, or scientific questions, may havevarious answers, or representations. This conclusion is generally known astheoretical pluralism (arXiv:physics/9806011). It is exactly such a pluralityfor conceiving, or representing, nature that opens the way for a possiblyfruitful dialog among the various forms of thinking, since this dialog can takeplace in the realm of the representations. A few examples taken from cosmology,sociology and theology are discussed in the context of this epistemologicalframework.

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