Full Idea
Covering-law theorists tend to think that nature is well-regulated; in the extreme, that there is a law to cover every case. I do not.
Gist of Idea
I disagree with the covering-law view that there is a law to cover every single case
Source
Nancy Cartwright (How the Laws of Physics Lie [1983], 2.2)
Book Reference
Cartwright,Nancy: 'How the Laws of Physics Lie' [OUP 2002], p.49
A Reaction
The problem of coincidence is somewhere at the back of this thought. Innumerable events have their own explanations, but it is hard to explain their coincidence (see Aristotle's case of bumping into a friend in the market).
Related Idea
Idea 16178 There are few laws for when one theory meets another [Cartwright,N]