The shift from mechanistic to organic model reflects 19th-century developments in science: developmental biology replacing mechanistic explanations of life, and relativity and quantum physics breaking down the solidity of matter.

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the development of new science in the 19th century developmental biology something other than mechanistic explanations of life and relativity physics and logistic physics breaking down the solidity of matter

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A History of Philosophy | 64 American Pragmatismwheatoncollege
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