Uniformitarianism
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title:
Uniformitarianism
text:
Uniformitarianism, also known as the Doctrine of Uniformity or the Uniformitarian Principle, is the assumption that the same natural laws and processes that operate in our present-day scientific observations have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhere in the universe. It refers to invariance in the metaphysical principles underpinning science, such as the constancy of cause and effect throughout space-time, but has also been used to describe spatiotemporal invariance of
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Assumption that the natural laws and processes of the universe are constant through time and space
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniformitarianism
date created:
2001-10-24T03:49:08Z
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2024-09-05T07:48:57Z
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