Erkenntnis 57 (3):395-405 (2002)
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Taking seriously the arguments of Earman, Roberts and Smith that ceteris paribus laws have no semantics and cannot be tested, I suggest that ceteris paribus claims have a kind of formal pragmatics, and that at least some of them can be verified or refuted in the limit.
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Keywords | Philosophy Philosophy Epistemology Ethics Logic Ontology |
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Reprint years | 2004 |
DOI | 10.1023/A:1021538530673 |
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