Full Idea
What we take to be laws are just descriptions of how the powers behave and affect each other.
Gist of Idea
Laws are nothing more than descriptions of the behaviour of powers
Source
S.Mumford/R.Lill Anjum (Getting Causes from Powers [2011], 4.3c)
Book Reference
Anjum,R.J./Mumford,S.: 'Getting Causes from Powers' [OUP 2011], p.99
A Reaction
This is precisely my view, which I first gleaned in its boldest from from Mumford 2004. I idea that ontology does not contain any 'laws of nature' I find wonderfully liberating. Weak emergence is just epistemic.
Related Idea
Idea 14555 Powers offer no more explanation of nature than laws do [Mumford/Anjum]