How the laws of physics lie /

Nancy Cartwright argues for a novel conception of the role of fundamental scientific laws in modern natural science. If we attend closely to the manner in which theoretical laws figure in the practice of science, we see that despite their great explanatory power these laws do not describe reality. I...

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Main Author: Cartwright, Nancy
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1983.
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by Cartwright, Nancy
Published 1983
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