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'The Epistemology of Modality', 'Causal Powers' and 'Letters to Bentley'
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature
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The principles of my treatise are designed to fit with a belief in God [Newton]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory
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I do not pretend to know the cause of gravity [Newton]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 5. Laws from Universals
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Originally Humeans based lawlike statements on pure qualities, without particulars [Harré/Madden]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 7. Strictness of Laws
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Being lawlike seems to resist formal analysis, because there are always counter-examples [Harré/Madden]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / b. Scientific necessity
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Necessary effects will follow from some general theory specifying powers and structure of a world [Harré/Madden]
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Humeans say there is no necessity in causation, because denying an effect is never self-contradictory [Harré/Madden]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws
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In lawful universal statements (unlike accidental ones) we see why the regularity holds [Harré/Madden]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / e. Anti scientific essentialism
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The motions of the planets could only derive from an intelligent agent [Newton]
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That gravity should be innate and essential to matter is absurd [Newton]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature
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We could call any generalisation a law, if it had reasonable support and no counter-evidence [Harré/Madden]
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