Titlebook: Ceterus Paribus Laws; John Earman,Clark Glymour,Sandra Mitchell Book 2002 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002 mind.philosophy o

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Deformation behaviour of light metal alloys,aightforwardly with a regularity in the manner demanded by regularity analyses of law and analyses of laws as relations among universals. This lesson enables us to understand the sense in which the laws of nature would have been no different under various counterfactual suppositions — a feature even

LUMEN

,Young’s modulus of light metal alloys, this volume. I argue that these kinds of claims rely on too narrow a view about what kinds of concepts we can and do regularly use in successful sciences and on too optimistic a view about the extent of application of even our most successful non-. laws. When it comes to testing, we test . laws . t

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Part 2: Non-ferrous Alloys - Light Metalst (2) . modifiers describe conditions that are almost never satisfied. She concludes that when the fundamental laws of physics are true, they don’t apply in the real world, but only in highly idealized counterfactual situations. In this paper, we argue that (1) and (2) together with an assumption ab

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There is No Such Thing as a , Law,n mistaken assumptions about the role of laws in explanation and their relation to causal claims. Moreover, the major proposals in the literature for the analysis of . laws are, on their own terms, complete failures. I sketch a more adequate alternative account of the content of causal generalizatio

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,, — An Inadequate Representation for Biological Contingency,in these domains are exception-ridden, being contingent on the presence of the appropriate conditions and the absence of interfering factors. I argue that the . strategy obscures rather than illuminates the important similarities and differences between representations of causal regularities in the

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, Laws: Classification and Deconstruction, rather different meanings. I distinguish between (1.) . CP-laws and (2.) . CP-laws. There exist also . CP-laws, which contain a comparative and an exclusive CP-clause. Exclusive CP-laws may be either (2.1) ., (2.2) . or (2.3) .. While CP-laws of kind (2.1) and (2.2) exhibit deductivistic behaviour,

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Laws, , Conditions, and the Dynamics of Belief,n various forms and dominated the discussion about lawlikeness in the last decades. Likewise, the issue about . conditions is essentially about how we epistemically deal with exceptions. Hence, ranking theory with its resources of defeasible reasoning seems ideally suited to explicate these points i

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,Who’s Afraid of , Laws? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Them,aightforwardly with a regularity in the manner demanded by regularity analyses of law and analyses of laws as relations among universals. This lesson enables us to understand the sense in which the laws of nature would have been no different under various counterfactual suppositions — a feature even