"The qualitative richness of the universe is so patent the, at first sight, the unity of the sciencies looks like an impossible dream -- as ... others have claimed. But of course such diversity has always spurred philosophers and scientists to search for underlying unities, both ontological and epistemological. ...

Arguably, the ultimate root of the unification movements is the materiality, systemicity, lawfulness, and knowability of the universe. Thus, diversity in the details is consistent with overall unity, just as the account of the particulars is complementary to the search for pattern: contrary to the hermeneuticists contend, all of the sciences are both idiographic and nomothetic, and use the scientific method."

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