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Categories: Metatheory of science, History of Earth science, Harv and Sfn template errors, Evolution, Epistemology of science
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uniformitarianism  Principle of uniformitarianism  principle of uniformity  actualism  doctrine of uniformity
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Uniformitarianism, also known as the Doctrine of Uniformity or the Uniformitarian Principle, is the assumption that the same natural laws and processes that operate in our present-day scientific observations have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhere in the universe. Wikipedia
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Uniformitarianism, also known as the Doctrine of Uniformity or the Uniformitarian Principle, is the assumption that the same natural laws and processes that operate in our present-day scientific observations have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhere in the universe. Wikipedia
Assumption that the same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe here and now have operated always and everywhere Wikidata
The assumption that the natural processes operating in the past are the same as those that can be observed operating in the present. OmegaWiki
The scientific principle that natural processes operated in the past in the same way and at the same rates that they operate today. Wiktionary
The scientific principle that natural processes operated in the past in the same way that they do today. Wiktionary (translation)