The
mechanistic view of nature in the 18th and 19th centuries was a powerful
example of such a claim. Murphy, for
example, clearly shows how physical causality at the bottom level bequeathed
Laplacian determinism to the entire domain of nature. Murphy, Beyond liberalism
and fundamentalism, 141-44, 150- 151.
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