Dewitt Worldviews Summary

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In Chapter 21 of Worldviews, Dewitt introduces the phenomena of scientific laws and their contribution to the scientific revolution in the 1600s. I found the debate between scientific laws and laws of nature very intriguing, as I hadn’t considered them separate. Dewitt explains that laws of nature define the fundamental way the universe works and scientific laws approximate the consequences of the laws of nature. In short, laws of nature are the phenomena and scientific laws describe observations of the phenomena. This notion made me consider Francis Bacon’s idea that while it may be true we can never really “know” anything, that sort of thinking isn’t exactly advantageous. To remedy this, we accept the way the universe works (laws of nature)

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