How the Laws of Physics Lie

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Paperback, 230 blz. | Nederlands

Oxford University Press | e druk, 1983

ISBN13: 9780198247043

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Hoofdrubriek : Wetenschap en techniek

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In this sequence of philosophical essays about natural science, Nancy Cartwright argues that fundamental explanatory laws, the deepest and most admired successes of modern physics, do not in fact describe the regularities that exist in nature. Yet she is not `anti-realist'. Rather, she draws a novel distinction, arguing that theoretical entities, and the complex and localized laws that describe them, can be interpreted realistically, but that the simple unifying
laws of basic theory cannot.