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12/03/2012

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Aristolian World View

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Motionless. Earth was center of the universe, God was beyond.
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Blaise Pascal

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French Scientist and Mathematician; Tried to convert to Christianity
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Candide

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Voltaire, satirizing society and organized religion in Europe.
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Deductive Reasoning

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Descartes, doubt everything and use reasoning with facts.
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Deism

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God built the Universe and let it run. Clockmaker theory.
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Descartes

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French Philosopher, discovered analytical geometry.
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Empiricism

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Bacons Theory of inductive reasoning.
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Essay Concernig Human Understanding

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Written by Locke. Tabula Rasa Theory.
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Francis Bacon

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English Politician, writer. Inductive reasoning determine what is true or false.
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Galileo Galeli

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Visually proved theories of Kepler. 
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Geocentric Theory

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Earth is the center of the universe
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Heliocentric Theory

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Sun is the center of the universe.
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Humanitariasm

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Promoting human welfare and social reform
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Inductive Reasoning

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Baconian empiricicsm. Based on speculations on other situations.
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Isaac Newton

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English scientist, 3 laws of motion.
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