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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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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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We take it that only necessary happenings could be laws [Harré]
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Laws describe abstract idealisations, not the actual mess of nature [Harré]
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Must laws of nature be universal, or could they be local? [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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