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What's an obvious but problematic answer to the question: What prevents an arbitrary generalization like ‘everyone is seated’ from being a law?
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It’s too specific, or it’s about a particular place or time, etc. The problem: there are no gold spheres with a radius of 1010 miles. That’s not about any particular place or time or object but it’s not a law.
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Give several attractive features of taking laws to be closely related to deductive systems.
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– Fit’s with scientific practice of finding balance between strength and simplicity
– Keeps sensible constraints on metaphysics. Doesn’t put modal notions like counterfactuals at the heart of laws. |
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Give problems for taking laws to be closely related to deductive systems.
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– Does this make the laws mind dependent?
– John Roberts argues we don’t actually engage in any such balancing between simplicity and strength. – Maudlin and Roberts argue that this won’t distinguish laws from regularities. |
