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Peut-il y avoir des « événements nomiques » ?

Year: 2026

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Can there be “nomic events”? Can the laws of nature suddenly change, as suggested by some works in contemporary cosmology and the metaphysics of laws? After clarifying certain conceptual confusions, I argue that nomic events are a conceptual impossibility, as they contradict the very meaning of the operator “It is a law that,” which performs a nomic unification of a set of facts.

DOI: 10.58282/colloques.15752

Author: Julien Tricard

Language: English

Topic: Philosophy of Biology and Scientific Explanation

Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

OpenAlex ID: W7127050122

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