Titlebook: Causation and Laws of Nature; Howard Sankey Book 1999 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1999 knowledge.metaphysics.realism

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-08826-4unified structure but instead is merely . there were the scientific entities (electrons, protons and so on) which, if they had existed, would have articulated that structure. This stand, of course, poses a problem for his own frequently expressed view that laws of nature are nothing more ontological

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-08818-9This comment is based first upon a letter that I sent to Brian Ellis about his paper, and second upon the quite elaborate reply that he returned to me. The reply, for which I thank him, gave me a much better grip on his position and so assisted me in the present enterprise.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-08822-6If a proposition is entailed by a set of laws of nature, does that make it a law? Call this the . There are two intuitively appealing ways of thinking about laws which produce sharply conflicting answers to this question.

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Comment on EllisThis comment is based first upon a letter that I sent to Brian Ellis about his paper, and second upon the quite elaborate reply that he returned to me. The reply, for which I thank him, gave me a much better grip on his position and so assisted me in the present enterprise.

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Response to David ArmstrongThis reply is based on my letter to David Armstrong, which was in response to his earlier criticisms of my paper on Causal Powers and Laws of Nature. I have amended my reply to take account of the objections made in the revised version of his response. I am grateful for the opportunity he has given me to clarify my position.

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Scientific EllisianismEllis defends a theory which is of great interest and importance: scientific essentialism. Science seeks the essential properties of things in the world, and the necessary truths which follow from them, argues Ellis. The core doctrine of the Ellis theory, I take to be this:

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