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Vik

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Laws of Nature are to be distinguished both from Scientific Laws and from Natural Laws. Neither Natural Laws, as invoked in legal or ethical theories, nor Scientific Laws, which some researchers consider to be scientists’ attempts to state or approximate the Laws of Nature, will be discussed in this article.

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Laws of Nature are to be distinguished both from Scientific Laws and from Natural Laws. Neither Natural Laws, as invoked in legal or ethical theories, nor Scientific Laws, which some researchers consider to be scientists’ attempts to state or approximate the Laws of Nature, will be discussed in this article.

A scientific law expresses a generalization concerning a relationship that is invariant with respect to certain conditions.

This distinguishes scientific law from the actual physical relationship.

I was thinking that the relationship itself could be called a "law of nature", but it seems that the phrasing is unclear. Perhaps it would be enough to emphasize the following distinctions:

1) existents, such as relationships

2) concepts

3) propositions about particulars

4) generalizations, such as scientific laws

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