HAPPENSTANCE. “Laws and explanation are central controversial issues in philosophy of science, which of course we cannot enter here. But we only need two uncontroversial points. First, there is a strong temptation to think of the laws (in our special case: differential equations) as being truly explanatory, while the statements of particular fact (boundary conditions) are not explanatory, because they are matters of ‘mere happenstance’.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022