Universals of Law and of Fact

In John Langshaw Austin (ed.), Philosophical Papers. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press. pp. 140-144 (1961)
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The article argues that universals of law, i.e. the laws of nature, are the general axioms of a deductive system of all knowledge, and their deductive consequences. Universals of fact are generalisations deducible from these together with particular facts.

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