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Single Idea 7206
[filed under theme 26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws
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Full Idea
'Things' do not behave regularly, not according to a rule: things are our fiction, and nor do they behave under the compulsion of necessity. That something is as it is, as strong or as weak, is not the consequence of obeying or rules or compulsion.
Gist of Idea
Things are strong or weak, and do not behave regularly or according to rules or compulsions
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 14[79])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Writings from the Late Notebooks', ed/tr. Bittner,Rüdiger [CUP 2003], p.245
A Reaction
I'm not sure about the denial of 'things', given that they are then said to be strong or weak, but Nietzsche seems to have had the key insight of modern essentialism, that the so-called 'laws' are merely the outcome of the inner natures of things.
The
22 ideas
with the same theme
[relationship between essences and laws of nature]:
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17005
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Natural things observe certain laws, and things cannot do otherwise if they retain their forms
[Hooker,R]
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17023
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I am not saying gravity is essential to bodies
[Newton]
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17009
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I won't object if someone shows that gravity consistently arises from the action of matter
[Newton]
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19403
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Each of the infinite possible worlds has its own laws, and the individuals contain those laws
[Leibniz]
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13198
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Gravity is within matter because of its structure, and it can be explained.
[Leibniz]
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13093
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The only permanence in things, constituting their substance, is a law of continuity
[Leibniz]
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11945
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In addition to laws, God must also create appropriate natures for things
[Leibniz]
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12725
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Leibniz wanted to explain motion and its laws by the nature of body
[Leibniz, by Garber]
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16507
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The law within something fixes its persistence, and accords with general laws of nature
[Leibniz]
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19958
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Laws are the necessary relations that derive from the nature of things
[Montesquieu]
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7206
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Things are strong or weak, and do not behave regularly or according to rules or compulsions
[Nietzsche]
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7140
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Chemical 'laws' are merely the establishment of power relations between weaker and stronger
[Nietzsche]
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7142
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All motions and 'laws' are symptoms of inner events, traceable to the will to power
[Nietzsche]
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15470
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Causal laws are summaries of powers
[Martin,CB]
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6614
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A hierarchy of natural kinds is elaborate ontology, but needed to explain natural laws
[Ellis]
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18089
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Dispositions are not general laws, but laws of the natures of individual entities
[Place]
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15892
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Laws of nature state necessary connections of things, events and properties, based on models of mechanisms
[Harré]
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15240
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In lawful universal statements (unlike accidental ones) we see why the regularity holds
[Harré/Madden]
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9434
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Laws of nature are just the possession of essential properties by natural kinds
[Mumford]
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23713
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Most laws supervene on fundamental laws, which are explained by basic powers
[Bird, by Friend/Kimpton-Nye]
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23778
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Powers contain lawlike features, pointing to possible future states
[Williams,NE]
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17993
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Laws are relations of kinds, quantities and qualities, supervening on the essences of a domain
[Vetter]
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