In its place, Guite embraced a " rational scientific materialism " coloured by B . F . Skinner's behaviourism and the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre and Samuel Beckett.
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It is this assumption that I call'scientific materialism .'Also it is an assumption which I shall challenge as being entirely unsuited to the scientific situation at which we have now arrived ."
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Geopolitics shared Ratzel's scientific materialism and geographic determinism, and held that human society was determined by external influences in the face of which qualities held innately by individuals or groups were of reduced or no significance.
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"' Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig B�chner "'( 29 March 1824 1 May 1899 ) was a German philosopher, physiologist and physician who became one of the exponents of 19th century scientific materialism.
Dedicated to defending scientific materialism, the " Monthly " sought to introduce its readers to the European culture that American society needed to emulate, and for the next decade served as a springboard for Santayana's contribution to the Arnoldian movement.
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It seeks to portray evolution as a " theory in crisis " and leave the scientific community looking closed-minded, opening the public school science curriculum to creation-based alternatives to evolution such as intelligent design, and thereby undermining " scientific materialism ."
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In truth, their objections do not flow from the empirical realities of homeopathy at all, but exude from a theoretical objection rooted in their adherance to scientific materialism which is a system of dogma that claims small doses cannot possibly work because they say so.
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:: : : : : Would this refute conventional scientific materialism, or simply suggest that our universe is a parallel universe to " something " inside the multiverse ? ~ discuss ! " ) 03 : 16, 9 November 2011 ( UTC)
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By thinking of any material thing ( like a rock, or a person ) as being fundamentally the " same " thing throughout time, with any changes to it being secondary to its " nature ", scientific materialism hides the fact that nothing ever stays the same.
