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17993 | Laws are relations of kinds, quantities and qualities, supervening on the essences of a domain |
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. | |||
From: Barbara Vetter (Dispositional Essentialism and the Laws of Nature [2012], 9.3) | |||
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. |