Laws, Regularities and Exceptions |
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Authors: | Alice Drewery |
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Affiliation: | Department of Philosophy, University of Reading, UK |
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Abstract: | Sentences of the form ' F s are G s' can express laws of nature, weaker Special Science laws, and also regularities which are not a part of any explicit science. These so-called generic sentences express nomic relationships which may have exceptions. I discuss the kinds of regularities expressed by generic sentences and argue that since they play a similar role in determining our ability to categorise and reason about the world, we should look for a unified treatment of them. |
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