It is the Business of Laws to Govern

被引:36
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作者
Schaffer, Jonathan [1 ]
机构
[1] Rutgers State Univ, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA
关键词
INFERENCE PROBLEM; CREDENCE; CHANCE;
D O I
10.1111/1746-8361.12165
中图分类号
B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号
01 ; 0101 ;
摘要
Non-Humean accounts of lawhood are said to founder on the Inference Problem, which is the problem of saying how laws that go beyond the regularities can entail the regularities. I argue that the Inference Problem has a simple solution - the Axiomatic Solution -on which the non-Humean only needs to outfit her laws with a law-to-regularity axiom. There is a remaining Epistemic Bulge, as to why one should believe that the posit-so-axiomatized is to be found in nature, but the non-Humean can flatten the bulge. Lawhood serves as a case study of how fundamental posits can do their business.
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