Laws and instantial statements

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 21 (4):371-378 (1970)
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In 'The Structure of Science' Nagel contends that a deductive explanation of the occurrence of an individual event must contain at least one instantial statement as a premiss (Nagel, 1961, p. 31). I shall defend a version of his contention.

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