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How the Laws of Physics Lie

By Nancy Cartwright

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
1983
ISBN
0198247044, 9780198247043
DOI
10.1093/0198247044.001.0001
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1833831 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
232\283
Time added
2012-09-03 03:34:30

Description

In this sequence of philosophical essays about natural science, the author argues that fundamental explanatory laws, the deepest and most admired successes of modern physics, do not in fact describe regularities that exist in nature. Cartwright draws from many real-life examples to propound a novel distinction: that theoretical entities, and the complex and localized laws that describe them, can be interpreted realistically, but the simple unifying laws of basic theory cannot.

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