Lecture 9

Practice Questions

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Short Answer Questions (submit online)

  1. Give three or more characteristics that one might take a fundamental law of nature to have.
  2. Compare and Nagelian reduction in the Whole-to-Part (downward) sense to that in the Wild-to-Laboratory (crosswise) sense.
  3. What is Cartwright's argument against Wild-to-Laboratory (crosswise) reduction?

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