| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - conception of purpose in nature to the modern ???mechanistic??? conception, see Margaret Osler???s paper ???From Immanent Natures to Nature as Artifice: The Reinterpretation of Final Causes in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy,??? The Monist vol. 79, no. 3.)It was bound to occur to someone that if the world is a kind of machine or artifact,
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