Laws and Necessity
Subject Areas : Philosophy
1 - ندارد
Keywords: Laws of nature, necessity, necessary truth, fundamental
, 
, dispositions,
Abstract :
In this paper, I offer a view of laws as descriptions oranalyses of fundamental dispositions. As analyses of dispositions,laws are metaphysically necessary truths. In the first section Iexplain what I mean by laws being property description. In thesecond section, I consider the possibility of being some necessarytruth can be known a posteriori and I claim laws of nature have thisepistemic status. In the last two sections, I try to accommodate myview on laws of nature with the modal intuitions about physicalnecessity that have lead many to reject necessary laws.
