Law of nature, in the philosophy of science, a stated regularity in the relations or order of phenomena in the world that holds, under a stipulated set of conditions, either universally or in a stated proportion of instances.

2003年4月29日 · Here are four reasons philosophers examine what it is to be a law of nature: First, as indicated above, laws at least appear to have a central role in scientific practice. Second, laws are important to many other philosophical issues.

Laws of Nature: 1. are factual truths, not logical ones; “The boiling point of sulfur is 444.6° Celsius” expresses a factual truth. “Every number has a double” expresses a logical truth. 2. are true for every time and every place in the universe;

Statements of the laws of nature provide the most systematic and unified account of phenomena; they are used to make predictions, and they figure centrally in explanation. But are the laws of nature real? Do they belong to the world or do they rather reflect the way people speak about it?

2022年3月10日 · In short, the laws of nature are identifications of how things work in reality, and are not an ideological force making things act the way they do, nor are they simply made up and reality just happens to follow that law of nature.

David Armstrong’s What is a Law of Nature? is a beautiful book. It offers its readers an exciting philosophical problem at the busy intersection of metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of science – namely, what makes certain facts constitute matters of natural law?

Law of nature embodies the belief that there are certain principles or institutions which are so rooted in ‘nature’ that they are of universal validity. *Aristotle divided law into that which was natural and that which was man-made, the former being …

2016年7月5日 · The question ‘What is a law of nature?’ is a central question for the philosophy of science. But its importance goes beyond this relatively restricted context to embrace general epistemology and metaphysics.

2022年11月21日 · A philosophical account of natural law must refine these various respects in which laws are supposed to differ from accidents. It must then specify what laws are such that they are capable of playing their distinctive scientific roles.

What is a Law of Nature? One of the central questions in the philosophy of science is under what conditions, if any, it can be said that a scientific law has been conclusively established and if there exist similar conditions that would allow us to conclude that a law has been conclusively refuted.