Beyond the Material and the Mechanical: Occam's Razor Is a Double-Edged Blade
Abstract. To confine scientific narrative to only material and mechanical causes is to ensure incomplete and at times contrived descriptions of phenomena. In the life sciences, and particularly in the field of ecology, causality takes on qualitatively distinct forms at different hierarchical levels....
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Year: 1995, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 249-266 |
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B Aristotelean causality B hierarchy theory B ecosystem development B Newtonianism |
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