Laws are conditionals
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Laws are conditionals
The ubiquitous schema ‘All Fs are Gs’ dominates much philosophical discussion on laws but rarely is it shown how actual laws mentioned and used in science are supposed to fit it. After consideration of a variety of laws, including those obviously conditional and those superficially not conditional (such as equations), I argue that we have good reason to support the traditional interpretation of...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: European Journal for Philosophy of Science
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1879-4912,1879-4920
DOI: 10.1007/s13194-015-0131-z