Antidotes all the way down?

Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 19 (3):259-269 (2010)
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This paper explores the question: can fundamental dispositions (which have no distinct causal basis) suffer from finks and antidotes? I use my response to shed light on the question: can the fundamental laws of physics be ceteris paribus laws?

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10.1387/theoria.581

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