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/10.1007/978-3-663-08817-2 them conformable to laws that it has no knowledge or apprehension of” (Boyle, [1686] 1979, pp. 181–2). With these words Robert Boyle questioned in a very fundamental way the appropriateness of applying the notion of a law to nature, since only intelligent beings are in a position to obey, or not to

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Organisation der geteilten Nutzung in this world. This view that the laws may have been otherwise is known as the . In recent years, however, the domination of this popular doctrine has been challenged by a new analysis of lawhood that denies the contingency thesis. This new analysis, known as Essentialism, rebuts the claim that the

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Innovation, Organisation und Konzern, the latter. The gas laws, some of the other laws of thermodynamics, Ohms law, perhaps some dynamical and electrodynamic principles, all appear to state relations between quantities.1 For example, pressure, volume and temperature are quantities, and the gas laws describe relations between values ass

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Organisation r?umlichen Wissensartin has succeeded in refuting the ‘simple conditional analysis’ of dispositions. I agree. It is noteworthy how Lewis’s exposition of Martin’s case makes a small but significant improvement on the original. For Martin’ s counterexamples all involve some trickery with time — a divine agent with fore