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| Ceteris paribus: Philosophy of Science - "all other things being equal". Requirement for conducting experiments. In practice virtually never met, inter alia because of the difficulty to assess the relevance of the factors. See also experiments, theories, science, methods, thought experiments._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Nancy Cartwright on Ceteris paribus - Dictionary of Arguments
I 45 Ceteris Paribus Laws/CPL/Cartwright: not "The other things are assumed to be the same", but "the other things are assumed to be correct". - Different version: as "substitute": laws that are not quite right, but fulfill the same function. - Then "ceteris paribus" is a modifier. - Then they do not apply to quite as many cases. ceteris paribus laws: and these are wrong! Unknown laws cannot be a reason to say E.g. the angle is so and so because it is different in the purely isotropic medium. I 50 It would be a et on unknown laws. I 64 ceteris paribus laws only describe processes as long as a single cause exists. >Effect, >Cause, >Laws, >Causal laws, >Causality, >Description, >Explanation, >Natural laws. _____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Car I N. Cartwright How the laws of physics lie Oxford New York 1983 CartwrightR I R. Cartwright A Neglected Theory of Truth. Philosophical Essays, Cambridge/MA pp. 71-93 In Theories of Truth, Paul Horwich, Aldershot 1994 CartwrightR II R. Cartwright Ontology and the theory of meaning Chicago 1954 |
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