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We are accustomed to thinking of the universe as governed by various "laws of nature" and of science as aiming to discover these laws.
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- Title Natural Laws in Scientific Practice
- Author Marc Lange
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
- Date 2000-06-08
- ISBN 9780195131482 / 0195131487
- Weight 1.67 lbs (0.76 kg)
- Dimensions 9.36 x 6.38 x 1.11 in (23.77 x 16.21 x 2.82 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Nature, Philosophy and science
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99038157
- Dewey Decimal Code 501
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-Oxford University Press (2000)-. First edition xvi+348 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in dustjacket. Laws of nature have long been thought to have special significance for aspects of scientific reasoning such as counterfactual conditionals, inductive projections, and scientific explanations. But the laws' distinctive roles in scientific reasoning have proved notoriously difficult to identify precisely, leading some philosophers even to suggest that there are no such roles. The aim of this book is to determine these roles and see what a law of nature must be in order for the laws to function as they do in scientific practice. Lange shows that the laws possess a uniquely broad range of invariance under counterfactual perturbations, a range that for the first time is characterised without appealing to the concept of a law. It is argued that the laws fail to supervene on the nonnomic facts, just as the rules governing chess fail to supervene on the moves made in a given actual game. It is also argued,…
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