Are All Laws of Nature Created Equal? Meta-laws Versus More Necessary Laws: Are All Laws of Nature Created Equal? Meta-Laws Versus...: S. Hirèche et al.
Two approaches to elevating certain laws of nature over others have come to prominence recently. On the one hand, according to the meta-laws approach, there are meta-laws, laws which relate to laws as those laws relate to particular facts. On the other hand, according to the modal, or non-absolutist...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 90; no. 3; pp. 1041 - 1060 |
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