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Single Idea 3527
[filed under theme 26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 7. Strictness of Laws
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Full Idea
'Strict' laws of nature contain no ceteris paribus clauses ('all things being equal'), and are part of a closed system (so that whatever affects the system must be included within the system).
Gist of Idea
Strict laws allow no exceptions and are part of a closed system
Source
Keith T. Maslin (Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind [2001], 7.5)
Book Ref
Maslin,Keith: 'An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind' [Polity 2001], p.201
The
12 ideas
with the same theme
[whether laws are necessary, or their truth is qualified]:
17004
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Nothing can break the binding laws of eternity
[Lucretius]
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16686
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God has established laws throughout nature, and implanted ideas of them within us
[Descartes]
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15820
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A 'law of nature' is just something which is physically necessary
[Chisholm]
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15867
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Laws describe abstract idealisations, not the actual mess of nature
[Harré]
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15860
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We take it that only necessary happenings could be laws
[Harré]
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15872
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Must laws of nature be universal, or could they be local?
[Harré]
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15238
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Being lawlike seems to resist formal analysis, because there are always counter-examples
[Harré/Madden]
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14349
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If there are no finks or antidotes at the fundamental level, the laws can't be ceteris paribus
[Burge, by Corry]
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3525
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Strict laws make causation logically necessary
[Maslin]
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3527
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Strict laws allow no exceptions and are part of a closed system
[Maslin]
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14575
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A 'ceteris paribus' clause implies that a conditional only has dispositional force
[Mumford/Anjum]
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23706
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Hume's Dictum says no connections are necessary - so mass and spacetime warping could separate
[Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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