The laws linking mind and brain are what Feigl (1958) calls nomological danglers, that is, brute facts added onto the body of integrated physical law. From Wordnik.com. [Dualism] Reference
She explains their more or less general domain of application in terms of causal capacities and arrangements she calls nomological machines (Cartwright 1989; Cartwright 1999). From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Science] Reference
This way, one might have interaction yet preserve a kind of nomological closure, in the sense that no laws are infringed. From Wordnik.com. [Dualism] Reference
A crescent sun is a chimera, a nomological impossibility. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk] Reference
He also tells us that "if R then C" need not be nomological. From Wordnik.com. [Teleological Theories of Mental Content] Reference
Weinberg's (1992) reductionism is opposed to nomological holism in science. From Wordnik.com. [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference
In some sense -- logical or nomological -- these events are just not possible. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
Our ordinary notion of causation does not track any nomological feature of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Backward Causation] Reference
M2 must of (at least) nomological necessity be instantiated at t2 because its emergence base. From Wordnik.com. [Emergent Properties] Reference
And supervenience with only nomological necessity can be explained by appeal to laws of nature. From Wordnik.com. [Supervenience] Reference
This nomological property principle rules out the causal relevance of anomic mental properties. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalous Monism] Reference
To see that supervenience does not suffice for entailment, recall that supervenience can hold with only nomological necessity. From Wordnik.com. [Supervenience] Reference
In practice, the nomological, statistical, counterfactual, and agential accounts tend to converge in the indeterministic case. From Wordnik.com. [The Metaphysics of Causation] Reference
Obviously if this is a general nomological fact, then learning one's native language cannot be modeled on the phrase book model. From Wordnik.com. [The Language of Thought Hypothesis] Reference
This linking law is the nomological premise in the DN argument that, according to Hempel, is “implicitly” asserted by (2.2.1). From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Explanation] Reference
Alethic quirks: There are four levels of possibility we might distinguish: logical; metaphysical/nomological; temporal; technical. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
But there is vigorous disagreement about whether the supervenience relation holds with metaphysical or merely nomological necessity. From Wordnik.com. [Supervenience] Reference
Quirks come in different flavours according to (amongst othet things) the type of impossibility they embody, temporal or nomological. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk] Reference
It is in virtue of the Wiedemann-Franz Law that electrical conductivity supervenes with nomological necessity on thermal conductivity. From Wordnik.com. [Supervenience] Reference
So Honderich's nomological property principle must itself be amended to the Principle of the nomological Character of Causally Relevant. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalous Monism] Reference
Cartwright 1989 emphasizes the causal ontology underlying both nomological and general character of scientific laws and useful knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Science] Reference
So, supervenience relations can hold with either metaphysical or nomological necessity, and perhaps even with some other kind of necessity. From Wordnik.com. [Supervenience] Reference
What we want is a characterization of every physical process so that the invariance of cause and effect corresponds to nomological irreversibility. From Wordnik.com. [Backward Causation] Reference
"Causal (or nomological) determinism is the thesis that future events are necessitated by past and present events combined with the laws of nature.". From Wordnik.com. [Bunny and a Book] Reference
As to probability, each of the nomological, statistical, counterfactual, and agential versions of the theory might be thought to harbor causal notions. From Wordnik.com. [The Metaphysics of Causation] Reference
The structure of dispositions described by Mumford (2004) and Psillos's (2003) idea of nomological structure are cognate to the idea of modal structure. From Wordnik.com. [Structural Realism] Reference
Laws of nature play an important role in many accounts of explanation, most prominently in the deductive-nomological model and the unification approach. From Wordnik.com. [Models in Science] Reference
F&P claim that this is the only way an architecture can be said to guarantee the nomological necessity of cognitive regularities like systematicity, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Language of Thought Hypothesis] Reference
One is a claim of the logical or nomological impossibility of some phenomenon, and the other is a causal explanatory framework for a set of observations. From Wordnik.com. [Robert John Russell : Intelligent Design is Not Science and Does Not Qualify to be Taught in Public School Science Classes - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Counterfactuals about particulars are understood to be true if the corresponding indicative conditionals are instances of true nomological generalizations. From Wordnik.com. [Hans Reichenbach] Reference
However, it can reasonably be wondered how this line of thinking is responsive to the point that appears to be underlying Honderich's nomological property principle. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalous Monism] Reference
Furthermore, the hypothesis of dualism with its extra 'nomological danglers' that have to be arranged just right is antecedently much more probable on theism than atheism. From Wordnik.com. [Fine-Tuning: The New Creationist Strategy] Reference
˜laws™ are neither prescriptions for thinking, nor nomological generalities of our psychology. From Wordnik.com. [The Normativity of Meaning and Content] Reference
Too many research models include neither the IT artifact nor at least one elements of nomological net; need to focus on IT artifact and Net. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
1978, “A deductive nomological model of probabilistic explanation,” Philosophy of Science, 45. From Wordnik.com. [Fitness] Reference
One finds analyses of causation in terms of nomological subsumption (Davidson 1980d, Kim 1973, Horwich. From Wordnik.com. [The Metaphysics of Causation] Reference
(This is what has come to be called the “covering Law” model of explanation or the “deductive-nomological” model. From Wordnik.com. [John Stuart Mill] Reference
Fundamental or “original” nomological statements are those logically equivalent to a true sentence (with no terms that. From Wordnik.com. [Hans Reichenbach] Reference
For if causation is understood as nomological. From Wordnik.com. [Emergent Properties] Reference
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