Dimensions of Scientific Law
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- 1 June 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy of Science
- Vol. 67 (2) , 242-265
- https://doi.org/10.1086/392774
Abstract
Biological knowledge does not fit the image of science that philosophers have developed. Many argue that biology has no laws. Here I criticize standard normative accounts of law and defend an alter...Keywords
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