Single Idea 14554

[catalogued under 26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature]

Full Idea

What we take to be laws are just descriptions of how the powers behave and affect each other.

Gist of Idea

Laws are nothing more than descriptions of the behaviour of powers

Source

S.Mumford/R.Lill Anjum (Getting Causes from Powers [2011], 4.3c)

Book Reference

Anjum,R.J./Mumford,S.: 'Getting Causes from Powers' [OUP 2011], p.99


A Reaction

This is precisely my view, which I first gleaned in its boldest from from Mumford 2004. I idea that ontology does not contain any 'laws of nature' I find wonderfully liberating. Weak emergence is just epistemic.

Related Idea

Idea 14555 Powers offer no more explanation of nature than laws do [Mumford/Anjum]