Laws of Nature
- 1 June 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy of Science
- Vol. 44 (2), 248-268
- https://doi.org/10.1086/288741
Abstract
It is a traditional empiricist doctrine that natural laws are universal truths. In order to overcome the obvious difficulties with this equation most empiricists qualify it by proposing to equate l...Keywords
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