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Newton's mechanical philosophy, with all its positive effects on human life, ultimately leads to Deism. [18] It is a stagnant worldview that cannot explain God's constant presence and favor in the world. [19] At the height of this philosophy, God was viewed as a skilled designer, and for him the mental structure and human morality were ...
In World Hypotheses, Pepper argues that logical positivism was in error, because there is no such thing as data free from interpretation, and that root metaphors are necessary in epistemology. In other words, objectivity is a myth because there is no such thing as pure, objective fact.
Title page of Isaac Newton's Opticks. Newtonianism is a philosophical and scientific doctrine inspired by the beliefs and methods of natural philosopher Isaac Newton.While Newton's influential contributions were primarily in physics and mathematics, his broad conception of the universe as being governed by rational and understandable laws laid the foundation for many strands of Enlightenment ...
Recently, the received view of theories has been displaced by the semantic view of theories as the dominant position in theory formulation in the philosophy of science. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Notes
Systems philosophy is a discipline aimed at constructing a new philosophy (in the sense of worldview) by using systems concepts.The discipline was first described by Ervin Laszlo in his 1972 book Introduction to Systems Philosophy: Toward a New Paradigm of Contemporary Thought. [1]
In the social sciences an open system is a process that exchanges material, energy, people, capital and information with its environment. French/Greek philosopher Kostas Axelos argued that seeing the "world system" as inherently open (though unified) would solve many of the problems in the social sciences, including that of praxis (the relation of knowledge to practice), so that various social ...
Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck's values orientation theory (put forward in 1961) proposes that all human societies must answer a limited number of universal problems, that the value-based solutions are limited in number and universally known, but that different cultures have different preferences among them.
Mechanical universe can refer to: Mechanism (philosophy) , theory that the universe is best understood as a system composed entirely of matter in motion under a complete and regular system of laws Clockwork universe theory , compares the operation of the physical universe to the workings of a mechanical clock