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At the same time, short temporal events seem to be more easily framed in lawlike trends and regularities, in narrower sequences.
30) The standards for determining negligence, although lawlike in principle, are so variable and diffuse that judges are loath to wrestle with them; insofar as the relevant standards are community standards or mores about what counts as responsible behavior, the jury is better positioned to apply them.
One such claim--made by Richard Boyd, Michael Devitt, and others--is that the theoretical terms of most current (or the best of 'mature') scientific theories typically refer and that their lawlike statements are at least approximately true.
 
 
 
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