Explaining the modal force of natural laws

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Bartels
Keyword(s):  
Natural Laws ◽  
Modal Force

scholarly journals Varieties of dispositional essentialism about natural laws

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Salim Hirèche
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Laws ◽  
Relative Position ◽  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Natural Laws ◽  
Natural Entities ◽  
The World ◽  
Dispositional Essentialism ◽  
Modal Force ◽  
Internal Comparison

AbstractAn important task for metaphysicians and philosophers of science is to account for laws of nature – in particular, how they distinguish themselves from ‘mere’ regularities, and the modal force they are endowed with, ‘natural necessity’. Dispositional essentialism about laws (for short: ‘essentialism’) is roughly the view that laws distinguish themselves by being grounded in the essences of natural entities (e.g. kinds, properties). This paper does not primarily concern how essentialism compares to its main rivals – Humeanism and Armstrongeanism. Rather, it distinguishes and comparatively assesses various brands of essentialism – which mainly differ as to where exactly they take laws to find their essentialist sources (e.g. in particular entities, like electrons, or in larger pluralities of entities, or in the world as a whole), and what they take to be the targets of laws, namely what they apply to. Yet, this internal comparison is not unrelated to the more general debate about laws: the main criteria with which I compare these essentialist views concern how they can deal with some of the main objections faced by essentialism in general (the modal status it typically attributes to laws, which some think is too strong; and its alleged incapacity to account for the most 'general' laws, like conservation laws), and how they can keep what is arguably the main intuitive advantage of essentialism over its rivals (the fact that, on this view, things “govern themselves”). Thus, the paper also concerns the relative position of essentialism in the larger debate about laws – ultimately bringing support to it.

The Harmony and Application of Natural Laws

1882 ◽  
Vol 14 (351supp) ◽  
pp. 5602-5603
Author(s):  
B. T. Giraud
Keyword(s):  
Natural Laws

Ṭabāṭabā’ī’s Theory of Natural Laws in Ethics: An Analytic and Critical Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-89
Author(s):  
Rahim Dehghan Simakani ◽  
Maryam Khoshdel Rohani
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Natural Laws

Ritual Impurity in Tannaitic Literature: Two Opposing Perspectives

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-103
Author(s):  
Vered Noam
Keyword(s):  
Entire System ◽  
Natural Laws ◽  
Natural Substance ◽  
Actual Existence ◽  
Human Awareness

This paper examines the rabbinic concept of impurity in terms of the essence of the reality that this term implies. Did the Rabbis consider impurity to be a force of nature, or rather an abstract formalistic structure devoid of any actual existence? A review of rabbinic sources regarding corpse impurity reveals that the essential structures of tannaitic halakhah are grounded in a natural, immanent perception of impurity, which gave rise to an entire system, intricate and coherent, of “natural laws of impurity.” Layered onto this system, as a secondary stratum of sorts comprising exceptions and “addenda,” is a more subtle halakhic tapestry woven from a diametrically opposed perception. This view subjects the concept of impurity to human awareness and intention, severing it from reality and, in so doing, also stripping it of its “natural” substance.

How the Explanations of Natural Laws Make Some Reducible Physical Properties Natural and Explanatorily Powerful

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Lange
Keyword(s):  
Physical Properties ◽  
Scientific Practice ◽  
Center Of Mass ◽  
Natural Laws ◽  
Fundamental Properties

Some philosophers regard no reducible physical properties as perfectly natural. However, in scientific practice, some but not other reducible physical properties (such as the property of having a given center of mass) denote genuine, explanatorily potent respects in which various systems are alike. What distinguishes these natural reducible physical properties from arbitrary algebraic combinations of more fundamental properties? Some philosophers treat naturalness as a metaphysical primitive. However, this chapter I suggests that it is not—at least, not as far as the naturalness of reducible physical properties is concerned. Roughly speaking, it is argued here that a reducible physical property’s naturalness is grounded in its role in the explanation of laws.

The Natural Laws of Social Convulsion.

1933 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 614
Author(s):  
Henry E. Bourne ◽  
Sidney A. Reeve
Keyword(s):  
Natural Laws

Modal Control by Modal Force Technique

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. D. Tsai ◽  
M. S. Ju ◽  
Y. G. Tsuei
Keyword(s):  
Feedback Control ◽  
Control Problem ◽  
Efficient Method ◽  
Time Domain ◽  
Modal Control ◽  
Global Dynamic ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Modal Force ◽  
Frequency Domain Approach ◽  
Direct Feedback

Abstract Modal control of structure requires the estimation of the modal states variables for feedback. One approach that does not require modal states variables estimation is the direct feedback control. Recent developments in modal control for direct feedback are mainly time domain methods. In this paper, an efficient method based on frequency domain approach named Modal Force Technique is developed. The method not only allows one to modify the global dynamic behavior of the synthesized structure but also can be utilized for modal control problem if the acceleration, velocity and displacement feedbacks are used.

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