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'How the Laws of Physics Lie', 'The World' and 'Laws of Nature'
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / f. Ancient elements
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The Hot, Cold, Wet and Dry of the philosophers need themselves to be explained [Descartes]
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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 1. Natural Kinds
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Science rests on the principle that nature is a hierarchy of natural kinds [Harré]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / e. Probabilistic causation
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A cause won't increase the effect frequency if other causes keep interfering [Cartwright,N]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature
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Classification is just as important as laws in natural science [Harré]
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Newton's First Law cannot be demonstrated experimentally, as that needs absence of external forces [Harré]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 2. Types of Laws
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Laws can come from data, from theory, from imagination and concepts, or from procedures [Harré]
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Are laws of nature about events, or types and universals, or dispositions, or all three? [Harré]
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Are laws about what has or might happen, or do they also cover all the possibilities? [Harré]
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There are fundamental explanatory laws (false!), and phenomenological laws (regularities) [Cartwright,N, by Bird]
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Laws of appearances are 'phenomenological'; laws of reality are 'theoretical' [Cartwright,N]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory
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Good organisation may not be true, and the truth may not organise very much [Cartwright,N]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 5. Laws from Universals
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Maybe laws of nature are just relations between properties? [Harré]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 7. Strictness of Laws
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Must laws of nature be universal, or could they be local? [Harré]
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Laws describe abstract idealisations, not the actual mess of nature [Harré]
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We take it that only necessary happenings could be laws [Harré]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws
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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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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 9. Counterfactual Claims
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In counterfactuals we keep substances constant, and imagine new situations for them [Harré]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature
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There are few laws for when one theory meets another [Cartwright,N]
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To get from facts to equations, we need a prepared descriptions suited to mathematics [Cartwright,N]
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Simple laws have quite different outcomes when they act in combinations [Cartwright,N]
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