Summary |
There's hardly a theory of laws of nature that starts with probabilistic laws as its primary definiendum. Almost all accounts of what a law is try to accommodate probabilistic laws into their theory only once it has been defined what deterministic laws are. In any case, any theory of laws better has to say something about indeterministic nomological relations for one of our best current scientific theories, quantum mechanics, postulates fundamental, not further analyzable probabilistic facts (atomic decay being one instance). |