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work_ash53a764zaphkcxjeyu7lrrbe	Robert Kowalenko	The epistemology of hedged laws	2011	8	.pdf	application/pdf	9372	557	62	Standard objections to the notion of a hedged, or ceteris paribus, law of nature usually boil down to the not true of the hedged law-like generalizations derived from data models used to interpret large and varied sets of empirical observations. explicitly identify all potential causal interferers with the relevant generalization, the view that our failure to do so is fatal to the very notion of a cp-law is plausible only if one illicitly infers metaphysical In fact, the ceteris paribus-clause hedging a law-like generalization derived from a given regression model is given fully determinate content by that very model. prospective cohort studies involving tens of thousands of participants began to uncover a correlation between regular nuts consumption and significant health benefits, such as reduced risk of coronary it is not universally true; laws of nature could be ''lossy'', in Braddon Mitchell's phrase, and not always get all the facts right as long	./cache/work_ash53a764zaphkcxjeyu7lrrbe.pdf	./txt/work_ash53a764zaphkcxjeyu7lrrbe.txt