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Though some would still say that it was under the spiritual aegis of Plato, current historical scholars prefer to hold that it was in fact under the aegis of a newly discovered mathematical Aristotle that something like the hypothetical-deductive account of modern science emerged in the 17th century and eventually became the ‘received doctrine’ or ‘view’ inherited by most professional scientific researchers today.1 The hypothetical-deductive method focuses on the permanence of the categorial inventory of things, the objectivity of mathematical ideas, and the necessity of the laws of Nature. Its privileging of theory is a legacy of the theological notion common to two millennia of secular and religious thought that the order in Nature comes from God (the ordering Demiurge or Creator) whose ideas it expresses.
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Heelan, P.A. (2001). The Lifeworld and Scientific Interpretation. In: Toombs, S.K. (eds) Handbook of Phenomenology and Medicine. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 68. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0536-4_3
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