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The universality of laws

Philosophy of Science 45 (2):173-181 (1978)

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  1. (1 other version)Fact, Fiction, and Forecast.Nelson Goodman - 1955 - Philosophy 31 (118):268-269.
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  • (1 other version)The Foundations of Mathematics and Other Logical Essays.Frank Plumpton Ramsey - 1925 - London, England: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Edited by R. B. Braithwaite.
    First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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  • (1 other version)Studies in the logic of explanation.Carl Gustav Hempel & Paul Oppenheim - 1948 - Philosophy of Science 15 (2):135-175.
    To explain the phenomena in the world of our experience, to answer the question “why?” rather than only the question “what?”, is one of the foremost objectives of all rational inquiry; and especially, scientific research in its various branches strives to go beyond a mere description of its subject matter by providing an explanation of the phenomena it investigates. While there is rather general agreement about this chief objective of science, there exists considerable difference of opinion as to the function (...)
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  • An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science.Arthur Pap - 1963 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 13 (52):334-337.
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  • (2 other versions)Counterfactuals.David Lewis - 1973 - Philosophy of Science 42 (3):341-344.
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  • (3 other versions)Scientific explanation.Richard Bevan Braithwaite - unknown
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  • An examination of Reichenbach on laws.H. A. Lauter - 1970 - Philosophy of Science 37 (1):131-145.
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  • Some recent work on the problem of law.Evan K. Jobe - 1967 - Philosophy of Science 34 (4):363-381.
    It is widely agreed that ‘scientific law’ is one of the key scientific terms which any adequate philosophy of science must attempt to clarify or define. The importance of the concept ‘law’ is made evident by the fact that the distinctive functions of science—explanation and prediction—are usually analyzed with reference to laws. Thus events are explained by showing that descriptions of them are deducible from laws, and laws are utilized in deducing descriptions of unknown future events, thereby permitting their prediction. (...)
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