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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
卷 50, 期 3, 页码 365-381出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/can.2019.41
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Laws of nature; universals; governance; explanation; David Armstrong
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David Armstrong accepted the following three theses: universals are immanent, laws are relations between universals, and laws govern. Taken together, they form an attractive position, for they promise to explain regularities in nature-one of the most important desiderata for a theory of laws and properties-while remaining compatible with naturalism. However, I argue that the three theses are incompatible. The basic idea is that each thesis makes an explanatory claim, but the three claims can be shown to run in a problematic circle. I then consider which thesis we ought to reject (hint: see the title) and suggest some general lessons for the metaphysics of laws.
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