Laws and Necessity

Subject Areas : Philosophy

امیر کرباسی زاده ¹ (ندارد)

Received: 2014-10-20 Accepted : 2014-10-20 Published : 2007-03-21

Keywords: Laws of nature, necessity, necessary truth, fundamental&#x0D, &#x0D, 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.