Full Idea
The laws of a domain are the fundamental, general explanatory relationships between kinds, quantities, and qualities of that domain, that supervene upon the essential natures of those things.
Gist of Idea
Laws are relations of kinds, quantities and qualities, supervening on the essences of a domain
Source
Barbara Vetter (Dispositional Essentialism and the Laws of Nature [2012], 9.3)
Book Reference
Bird,Alexander: 'Nature's Metaphysics' [OUP 2007], p.201
A Reaction
Hm. How small can the domain be? Can it embrace the multiverse? Supervenience is a rather weak relationship. How about 'are necessitated/entailed by'? Are the relationships supposed to do the explaining? I would have thought the natures did that.