@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 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=261987} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=261987} }