Sentence:  My point here is that the field within which such determination takes place is not bounded to constitute a single discipline, a single academic elite, a single language domain, a single culture, a single historical period, but that that field <WSD>ramifies</WSD> out so as to encompass, ultimately, the entire history of the whole of humankind. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To spread or diversify into multiple fields or categories.