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Humean Laws and (Nested) Counterfactuals.

Humean reductionism about laws of nature is the view that the laws reduce to the total distribution of non-modal or categorical properties in spacetime. A worry about Humean reductionism is that it cannot motivate the characteristic modal resilience of laws under counterfactual suppositions and that...

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Published in:Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 70; no. 278; pp. 93 - 114
Main Authors: Loew, Christian, Jaag, Siegfried
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Jan2020
Subjects:
Counterfactuals (Logic)
Reductionism
Electrons
Physical laws
Semantics
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