Laws of Nature: Do We Need a Metaphysics?
In this paper, I briefly present the regularity and necessity views and assess their difficulties. I construe scientific laws as universal propositions satisfied by empirically successful scientific models and made — approximately — true by the real systems represented, albeit partially, by these mo...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2007-12-01
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| Series: | Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/16483/15048 |