How The Laws Of Physics Lie by Nancy Cartwright
It argues that the so-called laws of physics are idealized, context-bound tools that systematically distort the messy, heterogeneous realities they are meant to describe; rather than universal true statements they are model-dependent prescriptions that omit background conditions and causal capacities, and so 'lie' by promising more generality than they deliver. The work advocates treating laws as instruments for prediction and control within specific models and interventions, emphasizing pluralism, causal capacities, and the importance of local, empirical regularities over the search for exceptionless, global laws.
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- 1983
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