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Published April 1992 | public
Journal Article

Urbach on the Laws of Nature

Abstract

[Introduction] Peter Urbach [4] has put forward a subjectivist account of laws of nature. He takes as his point of departure the following two observations: (1) one of the primary tasks of an account of the laws of nature is to explain the intuitive difference between law-like and merely accidental regularities; and (2) one of the most noteworthy differences between the two is that law-like regularities do, while accidental regularities do not, support subjunctive conditionals.

Additional Information

© 1992 Oxford University Press on behalf of The Analysis Committee. I would like to thank John Earman, Laura Ruetsche, and David Sandborg for helpful comments.

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