Ceterus paribus laws
Éditeur :
Kluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN :
9781402010200
Date de publication :
28 févr. 2003
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,5 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Natural and social sciences seem very often, though usually only implicitly, to hedge their laws by ceteris paribus clauses - a practice which is philosophically very hard to understand because such clauses seem to render the laws trivial and unfalsifiable.