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| Laws: A. Laws are rules created and enforced by governments to regulate behavior, protect people's rights, and promote order and justice in society. - B. Laws of nature are fundamental principles that describe how the universe works. They are universal and unchanging. - C. The status of laws in the individual sciences is controversial, since they may only describe regularities. See also Natural laws, Regularities, Principles._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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H. Wessel on Laws - Dictionary of Arguments
I 48 Laws/rules/logic/Wessel: Law = tautology, with operators. >Tautologies, >Operators. I 50 Rules: statements about formulas (formulas themselves do not appear as formulas, but as quotations) = equivalences. >Formulas, >Quotes/disquotation, >Levels/order. "Equivalence" is not an operator. >Equivalence. I 345/46 Law/Wessel: always logical form of implication - (x) (P (x) > Q (x) - although not all true implications are laws. When a law has the form of an implication it cannot be a statement of the form Q (a) where a is an individual constant._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Wessel I H. Wessel Logik Berlin 1999 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-27