@misc{Lexicon of Arguments,
title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 28 Mar 2024},
author = {Fraassen,Bas van},
subject = {Regularities},
note = {I 211
Regularity / Fraassen: practically do not exist - E.g. things that are under your full control. - E.g. content of your pocket is no regularity - no more fundamental regularities. >Simplicity.
But we need to explain why things approximately obay to regularities.
Hypothesis: the greater uniformity will be the truer one! - (> Gradation).
Solution: postulation of microstructures. >Microstructure.
I 213
Only observable regularities need to be explained. >Observability, >Unobservables, >Theoretical entities, >Theories, >Explanations.},
note = { Fr I B. van Fraassen The Scientific Image Oxford 1980
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