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Actually, if you review European history, it seems the path that led to the scientific revolution was thinking of nature as contingent versus necessary. Once humans felt that nature had options that were not dictated by certain axioms of nature (e.g., 'fire always goes up'), then performing experiments became necessary since you couldn't be sure of nature's actions.
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