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How the Laws of Physics Lie

How the Laws of Physics Lie

Paperback

History & Philosophy of SciencePhysics

ISBN10: 0198247044
ISBN13: 9780198247043
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jul 7 1983
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.66
Language: English
In this sequence of philosophical essays about natural science, Nancy Cartwright argues that fundamental explanatory laws, the deepest and most admired successes of modern physics, do not in fact describe the regularities that exist in nature. Yet she is not anti-realist'. Rather, she draws a novel distinction, arguing that theoretical entities, and the complex and localized laws that describe them, can be interpreted realistically, but that the simple unifying laws of basic theory cannot.

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