Laws of Nature | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
And the conclusion that’s coming out of his work is that nature is not governed by eternal laws. Which is a very big piece of news in science, because it has been the assumption (really, since the Greeks) that there is a higher world of mathematical perfection and that, somehow, the world of physical appearance and substance is a shadow in Plato’s... See more
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I think law allows freedom because freedom means you go outside of law. But law doesn’t allow novelty, exactly. That’s a slightly different concept. So if you take seriously this idea that the concept of law can be replaced by the idea of habit, then suddenly you’re not in a Newtonian machine, a soulless cuckoo clock of natural laws. What you’re... See more
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One critique of this question in the empiricist tradition is made by David Hume94 when he claims there is no such thing as an essential property, but a collection of what are called accidental properties—those features which change but do so without changing the nature of the thing or entity.