@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {Cartwright,Nancy}, subject = {Natural Laws}, note = {I 3 Natural Laws/Truth// Cartwright: thesis: the truly explanatory (theoretical) laws of physics do not tell us the truth. >Explanations, >Physics, >Truth, >Reality. I 21 Laws of nature / Cartwright: two ways: a) Association / Hume: e.g. the equations of physics: whenever force acts on an object, the acceleration f/m. >Equations. b) causal laws: E.g. Smoking causes cancer. >Causality, >Causal explanation, >Causal laws, >Fundamental law/Cartwright. - - - Hacking I 56 Laws of nature / Nancy Cartwright: deceptive, only phenomenological laws > possibility of truth. But it is possible that we know about causally effective communication. I 70 Laws do not reflect facts and do not evoke anything. CartwrightVsHume: the regularities are features of the processes by which we theorize - per Entity -Realism VsTheory-Realism. >Regularity.}, note = { Car I N. Cartwright How the laws of physics lie Oxford New York 1983 CartwrightR I R. Cartwright A Neglected Theory of Truth. Philosophical Essays, Cambridge/MA pp. 71-93 In Theories of Truth, Paul Horwich, Aldershot 1994 CartwrightR II R. Cartwright Ontology and the theory of meaning Chicago 1954 Hacking I I. Hacking Representing and Intervening. Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science, Cambridge/New York/Oakleigh 1983 German Edition: Einführung in die Philosophie der Naturwissenschaften Stuttgart 1996 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=250762} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=250762} }