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The Universality of Laws

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

John Earman
John Earman*
Affiliation:
Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
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Abstract

Various senses in which laws of nature are supposed to be “universal” are distinguished. Conditions designed to capture the content of the more important of these senses are proposed and the relations among these conditions are examined. The status of universality requirements is briefly discussed.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , June 1978 , pp. 173 - 181
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1978

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Footnotes

∗

I am grateful to Professor Peter Achinstein for a number of helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper.

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