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- Title
Pragmatic laws.
- Authors
Mitchell, Sandra D.
- Abstract
Presents a paper which attempts to direct discussion away from the question of what should we call a law towards an understanding of how scientific generalizations of various types functions in inferences to satisfy the pragmatic goals of science. How to decide whether or not biology has laws? Details on a pradigmatic approach to answering the question of whether or not the generalizations of biology are laws.
- Subjects
PRAGMATICS; SCIENCE
- Publication
Philosophy of Science, 1997, Vol 64, Issue 4, pS468
- ISSN
0031-8248
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/392623