A new circularity in explanations by Humean laws of nature.

Humean accounts of natural law have long been charged with being unable to account for the laws' explanatory power in science. One form of this objection is to charge Humean accounts with explanatory circularity: a fact in the Humean mosaic helps to explain why some regularity is a law (first premis...

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Publicado en:Philosophical Studies Vol. 180; no. 3; pp. 1001 - 1017
Autor principal: Lange, Marc
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Publicado: Springer Nature Mar2023
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