Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Proclus, Harr,R./Madden,E.H. and S.Mumford/R.Lill Anjum
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 5. Laws from Universals
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Originally Humeans based lawlike statements on pure qualities, without particulars [Harré/Madden]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 7. Strictness of Laws
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Being lawlike seems to resist formal analysis, because there are always counter-examples [Harré/Madden]
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A 'ceteris paribus' clause implies that a conditional only has dispositional force [Mumford/Anjum]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / b. Scientific necessity
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Necessary effects will follow from some general theory specifying powers and structure of a world [Harré/Madden]
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Humeans say there is no necessity in causation, because denying an effect is never self-contradictory [Harré/Madden]
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There may be necessitation in the world, but causation does not supply it [Mumford/Anjum]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws
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In lawful universal statements (unlike accidental ones) we see why the regularity holds [Harré/Madden]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature
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We could call any generalisation a law, if it had reasonable support and no counter-evidence [Harré/Madden]
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Laws are nothing more than descriptions of the behaviour of powers [Mumford/Anjum]
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If laws are equations, cause and effect must be simultaneous (or the law would be falsified)! [Mumford/Anjum]
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