How the Laws of Physics Lie

How the Laws of Physics Lie
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-13 : 9780191519901
ISBN-10 : 0191519901
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Book Synopsis How the Laws of Physics Lie by : Nancy Cartwright

Download or read book How the Laws of Physics Lie written by Nancy Cartwright and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1983-06-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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