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Laws and Reasons Why

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Laws play some role in explanations: at the very least, they somehow connect what is explained, or the explanandum, to what explains, or the explanans. Thus, thermodynamical laws connect the match's being struck and its lightning, so that the former causes the latter; and laws about set formation connect Socrates' existence with {Socrates}'s ...
Julio De Rizzo
wiley   +1 more source

The Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility Internationally-History, Systems and the Future. [PDF]

open access: yesCrim Behav Ment Health
Delmage E   +18 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Simulations All the Way Up! An Atheist's Response to the Fine‐Tuning Argument

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT So the Fine‐tuning Argument goes, because it is so unlikely for the physical constants of the laws of nature to have taken the values that they in fact take, we should significantly raise our credence that God exists. Simulation Arguments argue that our world might be (or, in stronger versions, that it probably is) a mere computer simulation ...
Nikk Effingham
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating the challenges of NT-proBNP result disclosure in clinical research. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Clin Transl Sci
Kent DA   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Vertebrate control chemicals: Current status of registrations, rebuttable presumptions against registrations, and effects on users

open access: yes, 1978
Pesticides federally registered for use against vertebrate pests are listed and discussed. Although the number of registered pesticides appears substantial, most are chemicals of questionable utility (e.g., naphthalene, mineral oil, bone oil, and sulfur dioxide), and are not considered as viable alternatives to more typical pesticides.
openaire   +1 more source

Beyond Substitution—An Antipositionalist's Guide to Subtraction—

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Existing accounts of relations do not properly account for variably polyadic relations: they fail to capture the relationship between completions of the same relation by different numbers of relata. This paper develops a fully general account of such relations by adding an operation of subtraction to the antipositionalist theory of relations ...
Jon Erling Litland
wiley   +1 more source

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