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Laws and explanations : theories and modal possibilities
- 作者： Koslow, Arnold, author.
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- 其他題名：
- Synthese library ;
- 出版： Cham : Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer
- 叢書名： Synthese library ;volume 410
- 主題： Science--Philosophy. , Philosophy of Science. , History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. , Mathematical Logic and Foundations.
- ISBN： 9783030188467 (electronic bk.) 、 9783030188450 (paper)
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CGU
- 資料類型: 電子書
- 摘要註: The book has two parts: In the first, after a review of some seminal classical accounts of laws and explanations, a new account is proposed for distinguishing between laws and accidental generalizations (LAG) Among the new consequences of this proposal it is proved that any explanation of a contingent generalization shows that the generalization is not accidental. The second part involves physical theories, their modality, and their explanatory power. In particular, it is shown that (1) Each theory has a theoretical implication structure associated with it, such that there are new physical modal operators on these structures and also special modal entities that are in these structures. A special subset of the physical modals, the nomic modals are associated with the laws of theories. (2) The familiar idea that theories always explain laws by deduction of them has to be seriously modified in light of the fact that there are a host of physical theories (including for example, Newtonian Classical mechanics, Hamiltonian, and Lagrangian theory, and probability theory) that we believe are schematic (they do not have any truth value) Nevertheless, we think that there is a kind of non-deductive explanation and generality that they achieve by subsumtion under a schema.
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- 系統號： 005468619 | 機讀編目格式
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