The Laws' Properties
Persson, Johannes LU
(2005)
5th Baltic Workshop on Logic and Philosophy of Science
In Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
4.
p.239-254
- Abstract
- We are good at discussing law statements of different epistemic status, and to describe logical relationships between different law statements. But contemporary discussion often suffers from a difficulty to formulate questions concerning laws of different ontological status. This paper presents a framework for distinguishing between properties and fake properties that seems to provide better tools for such inquiries. This paper also examines criteria for properties in connection with laws of nature. It discusses three suggested tests for properties, by Maxwell, Ramsey, and Cartwright. None of these tests is good as it stands. Rather than favouring one particular test, we should opt for methodologically stable decisions, i.e. decisions... (More)
- We are good at discussing law statements of different epistemic status, and to describe logical relationships between different law statements. But contemporary discussion often suffers from a difficulty to formulate questions concerning laws of different ontological status. This paper presents a framework for distinguishing between properties and fake properties that seems to provide better tools for such inquiries. This paper also examines criteria for properties in connection with laws of nature. It discusses three suggested tests for properties, by Maxwell, Ramsey, and Cartwright. None of these tests is good as it stands. Rather than favouring one particular test, we should opt for methodologically stable decisions, i.e. decisions where several tests come to the same conclusion. (Less)
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- author
- Persson, Johannes
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2005
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- trope, universal, Cartwright, mechanism, Laws of nature
- host publication
- Nature's principles
- series title
- Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
- editor
- Faye, Jan ; Scheffler, Uwe and Urchs, Max
- volume
- 4
- pages
- 239 - 254
- publisher
- Springer
- conference name
- 5th Baltic Workshop on Logic and Philosophy of Science
- conference location
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- conference dates
- 2001-05-24 - 2001-05-27
- external identifiers
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- wos:000231279900010
- ISSN
- 2214-9775
- ISBN
- 1-4020-3257-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/1-4020-3258-7_10
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 6f3078d3-f3ab-42f0-bf41-ee6959dba365 (old id 538080)
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-04 10:16:50
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