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Typicality and Minutis Rectis Laws: From Physics to Sociology

Published:2020-04-24 Issue:3 Volume:51 Page:447-458
ISSN:0925-4560
Container-title:Journal for General Philosophy of Science
language:en
Short-container-title:J Gen Philos Sci

Author:

Wagner Gerhard

Abstract

AbstractThis paper contributes to the clarification of the concept of “typicality” discussed in contemporary philosophy of physics by conceiving the nomological status of a typical behaviour such as that expressed in the Second Law of Thermodynamics as a “minutis rectis law”. A brief sketch of the discovery of “typicality” shows that there were ideas of typical behaviour not only in physics but also in sociology. On this basis and in analogy to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, it is shown that the nomological status of sociological laws such as Gresham’s Law can also be conceived as “minutis rectis laws”.

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

History and Philosophy of Science,General Social Sciences,Philosophy

Link

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10838-020-09505-7.pdf

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