The causal determinist maintains that the future relative to any moment is fully determinate at that moment and is predictable on the ground of natural regularities by any perfect knower of the initial conditions and relevant laws. (religion-online.org)
Man as knower, rather than man as experimenter, is the centre of attention here. (religion-online.org)
Like Whitehead prior to Science and the Modern World, he brackets out the human knower from the world he studies. (religion-online.org)