How the laws of physics lie
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How the laws of physics lie
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, c1983
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Prefectural University of Hiroshima Library and Academic Information Center
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Hokkaido University, Library, Graduate School of Science, Faculty of Science and School of Science図書
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"Clarendon paperbacks"--Cover of paperback reprinted 2002
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
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.
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