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Single Idea 5442
[filed under theme 26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature
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Full Idea
A 'passivist' believes that the tendencies of things to behave as they do can never be inherent in the things themselves; they must always be imposed on them from the outside.
Gist of Idea
For 'passivists' behaviour is imposed on things from outside
Source
Brian Ellis (The Philosophy of Nature: new essentialism [2002], Intro)
Book Ref
Ellis,Brian: 'The Philosophy of Nature: new essentialism' [Acumen 2002], p.3
A Reaction
This is the medieval view, inherited by Newton and Hume, which makes miracles a possibility, and makes the laws of nature contingent. Essentialism disagree. I think I am with the essentialists.
The
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[nature and status of the regularities of nature]:
23314
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Greeks explained regularity by intellectual design, not by laws
[Democritus, by Frede,M]
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16746
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Principles of things are not hidden features of forms, but the laws by which they were formed
[Newton]
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15863
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The principles of my treatise are designed to fit with a belief in God
[Newton]
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13194
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God's laws would be meaningless without internal powers for following them
[Leibniz]
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12907
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Each possible world contains its own laws, reflected in the possible individuals of that world
[Leibniz]
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13177
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An entelechy is a law of the series of its event within some entity
[Leibniz]
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5467
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Euler said nature is instrinsically passive, and minds cause change
[Euler, by Ellis]
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23670
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Scientists don't know the cause of magnetism, and only discover its regulations
[Reid]
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23671
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Laws are rules for effects, but these need a cause; rules of navigation don't navigate
[Reid]
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23679
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The principle of the law of nature is that matter is passive, and is acted upon
[Reid]
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14800
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The world is full of variety, but laws seem to produce uniformity
[Peirce]
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19254
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Our laws of nature may be the result of evolution
[Peirce]
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14825
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In religious thought nature is a complex of arbitrary acts by conscious beings
[Nietzsche]
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17633
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The law of gravity has many consequences beyond its grounding observations
[Russell]
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20638
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General relativity assumes laws of nature are the same in all frames of reference
[Einstein, by Close]
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17662
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Science depends on laws of nature to study unobserved times and spaces
[Armstrong]
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17682
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A universe couldn't consist of mere laws
[Armstrong]
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5442
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For 'passivists' behaviour is imposed on things from outside
[Ellis]
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5473
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The laws of nature imitate the hierarchy of natural kinds
[Ellis]
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5474
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Laws of nature tend to describe ideal things, or ideal circumstances
[Ellis]
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5475
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We must explain the necessity, idealisation, ontology and structure of natural laws
[Ellis]
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13595
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Laws don't exist in the world; they are true of the world
[Ellis]
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15864
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Classification is just as important as laws in natural science
[Harré]
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15865
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Newton's First Law cannot be demonstrated experimentally, as that needs absence of external forces
[Harré]
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15727
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Physics aims for a list of natural properties
[Lewis]
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8581
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Physics discovers laws and causal explanations, and also the natural properties required
[Lewis]
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14581
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The normative view says laws show the natural behaviour of natural kind members
[Lowe, by Mumford/Anjum]
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14338
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In the 'laws' view events are basic, and properties are categorical, only existing when manifested
[Mumford]
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9444
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There are four candidates for the logical form of law statements
[Mumford]
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16242
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Laws of nature are ontological bedrock, and beyond analysis
[Maudlin]
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16247
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Laws are primitive, so two indiscernible worlds could have the same laws
[Maudlin]
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16272
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Fundamental laws say how nature will, or might, evolve from some initial state
[Maudlin]
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9507
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Laws are explanatory relationships of things, which supervene on their essences
[Bird]
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6763
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Parapsychology is mere speculation, because it offers no mechanisms for its working
[Bird]
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6762
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Newton's laws cannot be confirmed individually, but only in combinations
[Bird]
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6772
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Existence requires laws, as inertia or gravity are needed for mass or matter
[Bird]
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14902
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Science may have uninstantiated laws, inferred from approaching some unrealised limit
[Ladyman/Ross]
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15151
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Many causal laws do not refer to kinds, but only to properties
[Chakravartty]
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14346
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Dispositional essentialism says fundamental laws of nature are strict, not ceteris paribus
[Corry]
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22622
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Any process can go backwards or forwards in time without violating the basic laws of physics
[Ingthorsson]
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