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Summary Of The Material World By Margaret Cavendish
Cavendish takes four plausible explanations for the order and complexities in this material world. She states that all things immaterial, God, are nonsense.The next possible explanation is that chance is the reason for the order and complexities.The idea that since the beginning of time the extremely complex minutiae that goes into the operation of the world has been left to chance is incredibly weak which isn't something you can base the rest of your premise on. The next being laws of nature, laws are often generalizations that turn abstract macro concepts into micro situations, an attempt to extrapolate all the data we can understand and apply it to our limited grasp of the world. This limited grasp is what we base laws on so it's illogical

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