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Other systems of thought accepted personal intuition as a valid source of knowledge. A unique characteristic of scientific thought is its rejection of this belief, replacing it with the principle of objectivity: the idea that there are fixed truths about the universe that can be objectively validated.
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Science and the rejection of personal intuition
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning
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