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Laws and Symmetry (Clarendon Paperbacks)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 113
EAN: 9780198248606
ISBN: 0198248601
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: January 04, 1990
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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Metaphysicians speak of laws of nature in terms of necessity and universality; scientists, in terms of symmetry and invariance. In this book van Fraassen argues that no metaphysical account of laws can succeed. He analyzes and rejects the arguments that there are laws of nature, or that we must believe there are, and argues that we should disregard the idea of law as an adequate clue to science. After exploring what this means for general epistemology, the author develops the empiricist view of science as a construction of models to represent the phenomena.
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