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How the Laws of Physics Lie
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Author(s):
Nancy Cartwright
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June 09 1983
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Oxford University Press
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June 09 1983
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Book chapters
pp. 1
Introduction
pp. 21
Causal Laws and Effective Strategies
pp. 44
The Truth Doesn't Explain Much
pp. 54
Do the Laws of Physics State the Facts?
pp. 74
The Reality of Causes in a World of Instrumental Laws
pp. 87
When Explanation Leads to Inference
pp. 100
For Phenomenological Laws
pp. 128
Fitting Facts to Equations
pp. 143
The Simulacrum Account of Explanation
pp. 163
How the Measurement Problem Is an Artefact of the Mathematics
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