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Ideas for Stephen Hetherington, John Locke and Stephen Mumford
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature
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There are four candidates for the logical form of law statements [Mumford]
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In the 'laws' view events are basic, and properties are categorical, only existing when manifested [Mumford]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 3. Laws and Generalities
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Without laws, how can a dispositionalist explain general behaviour within kinds? [Mumford]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory
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Dretske and Armstrong base laws on regularities between individual properties, not between events [Mumford]
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Regularity laws don't explain, because they have no governing role [Mumford]
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It is a regularity that whenever a person sneezes, someone (somewhere) promptly coughs [Mumford]
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Pure regularities are rare, usually only found in idealized conditions [Mumford]
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Would it count as a regularity if the only five As were also B? [Mumford]
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Regularities are more likely with few instances, and guaranteed with no instances! [Mumford]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory
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If the best system describes a nomological system, the laws are in nature, not in the description [Mumford]
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The best systems theory says regularities derive from laws, rather than constituting them [Mumford]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 5. Laws from Universals
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Laws of nature are necessary relations between universal properties, rather than about particulars [Mumford]
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If laws can be uninstantiated, this favours the view of them as connecting universals [Mumford]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / a. Scientific essentialism
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If we knew the minute mechanics of hemlock, we could predict that it kills men [Locke]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / b. Scientific necessity
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Boyle and Locke believed corpuscular structures necessitate their powers of interaction [Locke, by Alexander,P]
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The corpuscular hypothesis is the best explanation of the necessary connection and co-existence of powers [Locke]
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We will only understand substance when we know the necessary connections between powers and qualities [Locke]
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The necessity of an electron being an electron is conceptual, and won't ground necessary laws [Mumford]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws
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Laws of nature are just the possession of essential properties by natural kinds [Mumford]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / d. Knowing essences
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We identify substances by supposing that groups of sensations arise from an essence [Locke]
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Some dispositions are so far unknown, until we learn how to manifest them [Mumford]
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To distinguish accidental from essential properties, we must include possible members of kinds [Mumford]
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Other spirits may exceed us in knowledge, by knowing the inward constitution of things [Locke]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature
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The Central Dilemma is how to explain an internal or external view of laws which govern [Mumford]
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You only need laws if you (erroneously) think the world is otherwise inert [Mumford]
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There are no laws of nature in Aristotle; they became standard with Descartes and Newton [Mumford]
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