@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 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=746443} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=746443} }