Positivists believe that through scientific investigation of ontological problems they remove emotion from the equation, and with this method of investigation epistemology has become as close to a scientific search for knowledge as humanly possible. ... The more vehemently they oppose the rational system, the more it justifies itself. ... When an ideological system is created to support itself without the knowledge of the participants, it will undoubtedly last a very long time. ... If a system is set to oppress certain groups, and all people in that society have the values associated wi...

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To relate this theory to the idea of free will, we can begin by saying that because we are part of nature, we are subject to the same causal chain of unfolding events and that events we regard as "choices" or "judgments" act under a necessity similar to that of a mathematical equation. ... Furthermore our link to God/Nature establishes that we too are not outside of this system and we can only hope to better understand this fact as clearly as possible. ...

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