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In the history of science, there are many ironies, but perhaps the greatest of these concern the origins, evolution, and ultimate demise of classical epistemology and the doctrine of positivism. For reasons that should soon become obvious, belief in the seventeenth presupposition of metaphysical dualism, more formally known as ontological dualism, was critically important during the first scientific revolution and there are good reasons to believe that this revolution may not have occurred in its absence.
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play that is named after him....But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Kafatos, M., Nadeau, R. (2000). The Ceremony of Innocence: Physics, Metaphysics, and the Dialog between Science and Religion. In: The Conscious Universe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1308-6_10
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