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| Descartes view of the world as consisting of two fundamental entities. |
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| The idea that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe. |
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| Theory of inductive reasoning where you should go beyond speculation and begin to compare and analyze the subject. |
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| The adaption, albiet varied of "enlightened" governing into the rule of absolute monarchs often at the insistence of philosophies. |
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| A world-view has played a large view in shaping the modern mind. |
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| Galileo's greatest achievement: rather than speculate about what might or should happen in an experiment, he conducted controlled experiments to find out what actually did happen. |
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| Is sacred and absolute, reflecting the common interests of all the people who have displeased the monarch as the holder of Sovereign power, it is not necessarily the will of the majority. |
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| A law formulated by Galileo that stated that rest was nnot the natural state of object. Rather, an object continues in motion forever unless stopped by some external force. |
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| Law of Universal Gravitation |
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| Every body in the universe attracts a precise mathmatical relationship. |
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| Intellectuals in France who proclaimedthat they were bringing the light of knowledge to their ignorant fellow creatures in the Age of the Enlightenment. |
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| The idea that with the proper method of discovering the laws of human existence, it was possible for humans to create better societies and better people. |
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| Nothing was to be accepted on faith, everything was to be submitted to the rational, critical, scientific way of thinking. |
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| Elegant private drawing rooms where talented and rich Parisian women held regular social gatherings to discuss literature, science, and philosophy. |
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| The idea that despotism could be avoided when political power was divided and shared by a variety of classes and legal estates holding unequal rights and privileges. |
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| The belief that nothing can ever be known beyond all doubt and that humanity's best hope was open-minded toleration. |
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| A blank tablet, incorporated into Locke's belief that all ideas are derived from experience, and that the human mind at birth is like a blank tablet on which the environment writes the individual's understanding and beliefs. |
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| All the French economic and social elites who were seen as the educated or enlightened public. |
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