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Laws: An Invariance-Based Account
In Ott & Patton (eds.), Laws of Nature. Oxford University Press (2018)
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This paper defends an invariance-based account of laws of nature: Laws are generalizations that remain invariant under various sorts of changes. Alternatively, laws are generalizations that exhibit a certain kind of independence from background conditions.Author's Profile
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