Titlebook: Laws and Explanations; Theories and Modal Possibilities; Arnold Koslow Book 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 Relatvization of Laws

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F. Dretske’s Total Rejection of the Hempel-Modelemaining ones appear to be a wholesale repudiation of the received view about laws. They are not friendly amendments. If true, they cut deeply into the received view. We turn therefore to a detailed consideration of them.

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D. Armstrong’s Account of Laws: Identity Lost, Regained, and Lost Againressive power of physical theories, beyond those set by the use of ordinary mathematical analysis. We noted in Chap. ., there isn’t any problem with those universals used by Dretske, . they are physical magnitudes.

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Book 2019nguishing between laws and accidental generalizations (LAG). Among the new consequences of this proposal it is proved that any explanation of a contingent generalization shows that the generalization is not accidental. The second part involves .physical. theories, their modality, and their explanato