Universals of Law and of Fact

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Authors
Ramsey, Frank Plumpton
Publication Date
1978
Publisher
Routledge & Kegan Paul
Language
English
Type
Manuscript
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Ramsey, F. P. (1978). Universals of Law and of Fact. [Manuscript]. http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/194721
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This file contains a photograph of Ramsey's original manuscript, written in March 1928. It is republished in F. P. Ramsey: Philosophical Papers, edited by D. H. Mellor, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, ch. 7A, pp. 140-4. A PDF file of the manuscript is made available here by permission of the University of Pittsburgh, who hold the copyright until it expires in 2028.
Abstract
The article argues that universals of law, i.e. the laws of nature, are the general axioms of a deductive system of all knowledge, and their deductive consequences. Universals of fact are generalisations deducible from these together with particular facts.
Keywords
Laws of nature
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