When Other Things Aren't Equal: Saving Ceteris Paribus Laws from Vacuity

DOI10.1093/BJPS/46.1.81MaRDI QIDQ4940873zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul M. Pietroski, Georges Rey

Publication date 13 March 2000

Published in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/46.1.81

zbMATH Keywords

philosophy of science

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Foundations of classical theories (including reverse mathematics) (03B30)

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