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nomology

the study of laws - as much those of physics as legal science - or legislations.
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Now, it should also be clear that NOMOLOGICAL COVARIATION alone is too weak a relation for grounding semantic relations, because there are too many things mental states nomologically covary with.
Prinz's naturalistic theory of intentional content
This is precisely what I wish to dispute; my claim is that there is nothing nomologically impossible in the notion of an event which is neither determined nor random, an encounter with which would inevitably crash the fantastic devices in question.
Free will and preactions
Two possible worlds may be nomologically accessible to each other in some parts but not in other parts (7).
Possible worlds, mathematics, and John Mighton's possible worlds
(53) Chalmers is describing this case in order to argue that it is nomologically impossible.
Intentionalism defended
On the contrary, he argues that there is a lawful relation between the two, so that despite their metaphysical possibility it turns out that zombies are not nomologically possible.
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
He doesn't, however, address the crucial question: by what standards are the nomologically exceedingly remote worlds with ideal gases and massless test particles 'close' to ours?
Approximate truth and dynamical theories
In an overall sense, the ANOVA analysis suggested that the primary models (academic and professional) were; nomologically validated, as they matched a priori expectations.
Alternative models of collegiate business education: their validity and implications
(Briefly, the Consequence Argument holds that if determinism is true, then all choices are unalterable, necessary "consequences" of prior, nomologically sufficient events functioning as causal conditions, in which case there cannot be free will; that is, determinism and free will are incompatible, so, if determinism is true, it must be hard determinism.) For more subtle reasons he also seems to reject the incompatibilist's inflated-FW, but he apparently accepts other forms of free will, as shall be explained shortly.
Recent Buddhist theories of free will: compatibilism, incompatibilism, and beyond
What this illustrates is that the desirability-characteristic the agent sees in a course of action may be a very thin slice of a complex situation--even a nomologically impossible slice.
Deviant formal causation
Thus, our aim was to construct a structural model consisting of significant relationships, valid for the entire model, that is, nomologically valid.
Competence development through business relationships or competitive environment?--Subsidiary impact on MNC competitive advantage
In all the nomologically possible worlds by reference to our world, the relevant instances of P, P', and P" will thus be accompanied by the instantiation of M, as in Scenarios 2b, 4b, or 5b.
Realization *
Thus there is a set of possibilia that could be called "broadly logically possible"; this set is identical with the set of possibilia that are nomologically possible.
Spinoza's possibilities
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