Full Idea
The improved Dretske/Armstrong regularity view of laws dispenses with the empiricist articulation of them in terms of events, and construes them as singular statements of fact that describe relations between properties.
Gist of Idea
Dretske and Armstrong base laws on regularities between individual properties, not between events
Source
Stephen Mumford (Dispositions [1998], 10.4)
Book Reference
Mumford,Stephen: 'Dispositions' [OUP 1998], p.225
A Reaction
They then seem to go a bit mystical, by insisting that the properties are 'universals' (even if they have to be instantiated). Universals explain nothing.