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work_fs7m2gxkpjhinp4ypmferpgtsi	Mark Wilson	Critical Notice: John Earman's A Primer on Determinism	1989	31	.pdf	application/pdf	13695	684	51	the facts of modem classical physics do not straightforwardly accommodate themselves to the usual demands of popular philosophical accounts of law, theory and possibility. The suggestion that determinism might serve as a useful probe for uncovering largely unformulated, false presumptions in philosophy of science is one of the most intriguing and original aspects of this book. of mechanics-for example, Newton's Three Laws require such a supplementary "grounding" before the theory can be viewed as fully satisfactory. universe.5 But most partial differential equations-for example, the theory of elasticity we will examine in the next section are commonly studied in the light of so-called "mixed data", including boundary condition 5As Earman recognizes, many physical theories-for example, elasticity with memoryrequire a larger section of space-time than this. the differential equation for the string is supplemented by "boundary condition" principles governing points external to the string (for example, at 	./cache/work_fs7m2gxkpjhinp4ypmferpgtsi.pdf	./txt/work_fs7m2gxkpjhinp4ypmferpgtsi.txt