@misc{Lexicon of Arguments,
title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024},
author = {Bigelow,John},
subject = {Ceteris paribus},
note = {I 222
Ceteris paribus/BigelowVsCeteris paribus/Qualification/Qualified Act/Exceptions/Bigelow/Pargetter: Variant: "if no other disturbances exist":
1. Problem: what threatens to turn a law into a tautology, which ultimately reads: "Things move so and so, unless they do not."
>Tautologies.
2. Problem: The scope of a "qualified" law threatens to become so narrow that nothing more falls into that law.
>Range.
On the other hand, it will be said that a law has no positive authority at all if it is strictly understood.
>Laws/Cartwright.
Solution/Bigelow/Pargetter: one can solve the riddle by understanding how laws contain modalities.
>Modalities, >Laws/Bigelow.},
note = { Big I J. Bigelow, R. Pargetter Science and Necessity Cambridge 1990
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