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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. – Dictionary of Arguments. | |||
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Ludwig Wittgenstein on Laws - Dictionary of Arguments
Popper I 117 Laws of Nature/Wittgenstein (oral communication, Schlick, I 136): "Instructions for the formation of statements". >Natural laws. --- Kursbuch 8 IV 98 (German) Infinity/Law/Wittgenstein: only finite series determine the course of the law. >Rules, >Rule following, >Infinity. - - - II 35f Infinity/Wittgenstein: "infinite" is not an answer to the question "how many? The word "all" refers to an extension, but it is impossible to refer to an infinite extension. Infinity is the property of a law, not an extension. >Extensions, >Intensions, II 101 Experience/Causality/Cause/Border/Wittgenstein: all causal laws are reached through experience, therefore we cannot find out what is the cause of experience! If you give a scientific explanation, you describe an experience. >Experience. II 236 It is arbitrary whether we declare our laws right and say that we simply do not see the planet, or whether we call the laws wrong. Here we have a transition between a hypothesis and a grammatical rule. II 237 Hertz's mechanical theory replaces the three Newtonian laws with a single new one. But this is not a new mechanism. However, this is a new part of mathematics. II 238 Logic/Convention/Arbitrariness/Wittgenstein: the laws of logic, e.g. the sentences of the excluded third and the one of the contradiction to be excluded are arbitrary! To forbid this sentence means to adopt what may be a highly recommended system of expression. >Conventions, >Logic. II 417 Determining the number of bodies by law is something completely different from counting them. >Measurements, >Descriptions. - - - IV 105 Causality/Law/Natural Law/Tractatus: 6.32 the causality law is not a law, but the form of a law. 6.321 "Causality Law" is a generic name. For example, as in the mechanics._____________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. "Vs" indicates differences in content, not necessarily the chronological progression of a controversy. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
W II L. Wittgenstein Wittgenstein’s Lectures 1930-32, from the notes of John King and Desmond Lee, Oxford 1980 German Edition: Vorlesungen 1930-35 Frankfurt 1989 W III L. Wittgenstein The Blue and Brown Books (BB), Oxford 1958 German Edition: Das Blaue Buch - Eine Philosophische Betrachtung Frankfurt 1984 W IV L. Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (TLP), 1922, C.K. Ogden (trans.), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Originally published as “Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung”, in Annalen der Naturphilosophische, XIV (3/4), 1921. German Edition: Tractatus logico-philosophicus Frankfurt/M 1960 Po I Karl Popper The Logic of Scientific Discovery, engl. trnsl. 1959 German Edition: Grundprobleme der Erkenntnislogik. Zum Problem der Methodenlehre In Wahrheitstheorien, Gunnar Skirbekk, Frankfurt/M. 1977 |
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