Concept

Uniformitarianism

Overview

assumption that the same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe here and now have operated always and everywhere

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Uniformitarianism

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• William Whewell
• Aristotle
• Charles Babbage
• Constantin François Chassebœuf, comte de Volney

Related ideas

• Falsifiability
• Geology
• Metaphysics
• William Whewell
• Stephen Jay Gould
• Bible
• Occam's razor
• Causality
• Royal Society of Edinburgh
• The Spectator
• Actualism
• First principle
• Berwickshire
• Theory of the Earth
• Paleoecology
• History of Earth
• Jedburgh
• Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle

Place in the tradition

Part of Outline of philosophy.

Narrower topics:

• Paleoecology
• Theory of the Earth
• History of Earth
• Jedburgh
• Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle

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