Therefore, God could be externally validated through observation of nature, which made God tangible. For example, David Rittenhouse believed “that facts which men did not yet know…would confirm the quality which already had been proved by astronomic science.” Hence, what has been observed through science can predict what lies in other parts of the universe that has yet not been observed. This suggested that there could be no subject-object split between God and man. Such arguments against subject-object split reflect pragmatist William James’s belief of realism nearly one hundred years later, which would later influence pragmatist Hilary Putnam’s conception of realism another hundred years after
Therefore, God could be externally validated through observation of nature, which made God tangible. For example, David Rittenhouse believed “that facts which men did not yet know…would confirm the quality which already had been proved by astronomic science.” Hence, what has been observed through science can predict what lies in other parts of the universe that has yet not been observed. This suggested that there could be no subject-object split between God and man. Such arguments against subject-object split reflect pragmatist William James’s belief of realism nearly one hundred years later, which would later influence pragmatist Hilary Putnam’s conception of realism another hundred years after