I'm writing a paper, and I know there's some school of thought that says everything can be explained by man's powers of reasoning, if all the surrounding events are known, or something to that effect. Basically, that the so-called "Butterfly Effect" is real - that a hurricane occurs, ultimately, because a butterfly flapped its wings somewhere, and not because God/gods willed it or made it so. (Yes, I know that's a scientific simplification!) Can anyone help me with what school of thought this is, and who some of its major thinkers are? Thanks!
2007-01-18
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