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TFauchery · **on:** Jul 14, 2018

The leading model for the universe during the eighteenth century was that it was like a

a. work of art, full of spontaneity and novelty.
b. giant, organic body of which God was the soul.
c. great clock, run by mechanistic causes.
d. dark, impenetrable mystery.

Question 2

The model of Newtonian physics can be found in the common assumption of eighteenthcentury epistemology that

a. ideas can be analyzed down into fundamental, atomic units.
b. there is no reality beyond the physical world.
c. it is impossible to know anything about the mind.
d. all the questions about knowledge have already been answered.