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  • Causality
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Theories
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Philosophers of science
Precursors
  • Roger Bacon
  • Francis Bacon
  • Galileo Galilei
  • Isaac Newton
  • Auguste Comte
  • Henri Poincaré
  • Pierre Duhem
  • Rudolf Steiner
  • Karl Pearson
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