4794 | We don't use laws to make predictions, we call things laws if we make predictions with them [Goodman] |
17670 | Newton's First Law refers to bodies not acted upon by a force, but there may be no such body [Armstrong] |
12675 | Laws of nature are just descriptions of how things are disposed to behave [Ellis] |
15799 | Lawlike sentences are general attributions of disposition to all members of some class [Fetzer] |
4800 | Natural laws result from eliminative induction, where enumerative induction gives generalisations [Cohen,LJ, by Psillos] |
14339 | Without laws, how can a dispositionalist explain general behaviour within kinds? [Mumford] |
4793 | "All gold cubes are smaller than one cubic mile" is a true universal generalisation, but not a law [Psillos] |
14382 | Pragmatic laws allow prediction and explanation, to the extent that reality is stable [Leuridan] |