As part of their reflection on science a body of thnkers, articulated and defended the doctrine of the UNITY OF SCIENCE, the idea that the sciences are, in some sense, essentially unified, and their empiricism led them to appeal to PARSIMONY AND SIMPLICITY as grounds for both theory choice within science and for preferring theories that were On being ontological Scrooges.
(Ontology, at its simplest, is the study of existence. But it is much more than that, too. Ontology is also the study of how we determine if things exist or not, as well as the classification of existence. It attempts to take things that are abstract and establish that they are, in fact, real)
This empiricism came with a focus on what could be verified, and with it scepticism about traditional metaphysical notions, such as God, CAUSATION, and essences, whose instances could not be verified by an appeal to the data of sense experience
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