Holloway made relationality central to his new metaphysics, partly because it is central to the constitution of «matter» as
rediscovered by modern science and technology (see our editorials for Sept 2006 and July 2009).
Indeed, according to writers and scientists such as Pierre Duhem, Stanley Jaki and Peter Hodgson,
science in the
modern sense of the word took root in the late Middle Ages, fuelled
by a heady mix ofChristian theology and the newly
rediscovered riches of Greek philosophy and mathematics.