THE DEMARCATION PROBLEM OF LAWS OF NATURE

• Authors: Bielik Lukas
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper focuses on the problem of identification of laws of nature and their demarcation from other kinds of regularities. The problem is approached from the viewpoint of several metaphysical, epistemological, logical and methodological criteria. Firstly, several dominant approaches to the problem are introduced. Secondly, the logical and semantic explicatory framework - Transparent Intensional Logic - is presented for the sake of clarification of logical forms of sentences that are supposed to express the laws of nature. Finally, a complementary strategy to the demarcation problem is proposed, including reconsideration of relevant metaphysical, epistemological, logical and methodological requirements and principles behind the former conceptions.

Keywords

EN

CAUSALITY; DEMARCATION; LAWS OF NATURE; METOGOLOGY; TRANSPARENT INTENSIONAL LOGIC

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 522-549
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Bielik Lukas

• Lukas Bielik, Katedra logiky a metodologie vied, Filozoficka fakulta UK, Safarikovo nam. 6, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA094416