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2023
This Element provides an opinionated introduction to the metaphysics of laws of nature. The first section distinguishes between scientific and philosophical questions about laws and describes some criteria for a philosophical account of laws. Subsequent sections explore the leading philosophical theories in detail, reviewing the most influential ...
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This Element provides an opinionated introduction to the metaphysics of laws of nature. The first section distinguishes between scientific and philosophical questions about laws and describes some criteria for a philosophical account of laws. Subsequent sections explore the leading philosophical theories in detail, reviewing the most influential ...
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Natural Law and the Nature of Law: Kelsen’s Paradox
2017Is it possible to articulate a genuine pure theory of law without it ceasing to be a positivist theory of law? The project of a pure theory of law can be held to presuppose a “nature of law” whose criteria lead to transcendence with respect to positive law, even though it is not its purpose.
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Consumer Electronics Test & Development, 2023
In this essential guide Atlas Material Testing Technology introduces us to the key standards and organizations required to make accelerated weathering testing accurate, realistic and reliable.
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In this essential guide Atlas Material Testing Technology introduces us to the key standards and organizations required to make accelerated weathering testing accurate, realistic and reliable.
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2019
This chapter investigates how an ontology of power and influence might help us answer the question ‘What is it to be a law of nature?’ In particular, the chapter investigates how this ontology might help us develop the dispositional essentialist account of laws as it is presented by Alexander Bird.
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This chapter investigates how an ontology of power and influence might help us answer the question ‘What is it to be a law of nature?’ In particular, the chapter investigates how this ontology might help us develop the dispositional essentialist account of laws as it is presented by Alexander Bird.
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2005
The problem of distinguishing between laws and accidental generalisations is discussed.Taking for granted that some laws are derivable from others, the basic problem is to say what a fundamental law, i.e., a law that is not derived from other laws, is. It is argued that there are different categories of fundamental laws.
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The problem of distinguishing between laws and accidental generalisations is discussed.Taking for granted that some laws are derivable from others, the basic problem is to say what a fundamental law, i.e., a law that is not derived from other laws, is. It is argued that there are different categories of fundamental laws.
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2012
The discovery of the laws of nature has long been considered a principal aim of science. Of course, many laws that science discovers are not commonly designated “laws.” Alongside Boyle’s law, the law of universal gravitation, and the law of supply and demand, there are Archimedes’ principle, Maxwell’s equations, and the formulas of stoichiometry ...
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The discovery of the laws of nature has long been considered a principal aim of science. Of course, many laws that science discovers are not commonly designated “laws.” Alongside Boyle’s law, the law of universal gravitation, and the law of supply and demand, there are Archimedes’ principle, Maxwell’s equations, and the formulas of stoichiometry ...
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1994
John Carroll undertakes a careful philosophical examination of laws of nature, causation, and other related topics. He argues that laws of nature are not susceptible to the sort of philosophical treatment preferred by empiricists. Indeed he shows that emperically pure matters of fact need not even determine what the laws are.
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John Carroll undertakes a careful philosophical examination of laws of nature, causation, and other related topics. He argues that laws of nature are not susceptible to the sort of philosophical treatment preferred by empiricists. Indeed he shows that emperically pure matters of fact need not even determine what the laws are.
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Philosophy of Science, 1977
It is a traditional empiricist doctrine that natural laws are universal truths. In order to overcome the obvious difficulties with this equation most empiricists qualify it by proposing to equate laws with universal truths that play a certain role, or have a certain function, within the larger scientific enterprise.
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It is a traditional empiricist doctrine that natural laws are universal truths. In order to overcome the obvious difficulties with this equation most empiricists qualify it by proposing to equate laws with universal truths that play a certain role, or have a certain function, within the larger scientific enterprise.
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2015
Hobbes distinguishes rational theorems from proper laws, yet both are constituted of the same precepts. The distinction cannot be merely epistemological, explaining the justification of the precepts from two standpoints. A thorough normative analysis reveals that the rational theorems have a conditional form and constitute what Hobbes calls counsel ...
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Hobbes distinguishes rational theorems from proper laws, yet both are constituted of the same precepts. The distinction cannot be merely epistemological, explaining the justification of the precepts from two standpoints. A thorough normative analysis reveals that the rational theorems have a conditional form and constitute what Hobbes calls counsel ...
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