dwarner078 Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vik Posted December 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 (edited) 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 Edited December 30, 2010 by Vik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grames Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 There is book on this topic which has the fundamentally correct approach. The Concept of Physical Law, Norman Swartz. Prof. Swartz is not an Objectivist but is Aristotelian enough that this is good work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian0918 Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 Also check out the series of lectures Richard Feynman gave on the nature of physical laws in 1964, which Microsoft has posted in their entirety online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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