1. Consilience
During the Enlightenment, Rene Descartes introduced reductionism as the one of the most powerful instruments of science. According to Descartes, reductionism is "the study of the world as an assemblage of physical parts that can be broken apart and analyzed separately- (31). ... Philosophers such as Descartes, Francis Bacon and Marquis de Condorcet stressed knowledge and unifying that knowledge. ...
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