Berkeley’s Best System: An Alternative Approach to Laws of Nature
Contemporary Humeans treat laws of nature as statements of exceptionless regularities that function as the axioms of the best deductive system. Such ‘Best System Accounts’ marry realism about laws with a denial of necessary connections among events. I argue that Hume’s predecessor, George Berkeley,...
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Main Author: | Walter Ott |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2019-05-01
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Series: | Journal of Modern Philosophy |
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Online Access: | https://jmphil.org/article/id/2167/ |
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