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work_n4hsxcgghve43ppsv2nzqwbewm	Robert Kowalenko	Ceteris ParibusLaws: A Naturalistic Account	2014	28	.pdf	application/pdf	12730	683	58	An otherwise law-like generalisation hedged by a ceteris paribus (CP) clause qualifies as a law of nature, if the CP clause can be substituted with a set of conditions derived from the multivariate regression model used to interpret the empirical data in as a plausible candidate for an empirically supported CP law, I argue that in some scientific contexts at least, CP clauses can be interpreted as straightforwardly referring to In fact, in economics textbooks the parameter estimates of multivariate regression models are often referred to as having a 'partial effect, or ceteris paribus, interpretation'—in other words, as allowing us to draw evidential import of the regression models used to interpret the results of the pulmonary function tests in the above studies is that they support an inference to a corresponding CP generalisation about maternal smoking and its effects on respiratory models used in these studies, if we take the content of the laws' CP clause to be given 	./cache/work_n4hsxcgghve43ppsv2nzqwbewm.pdf	./txt/work_n4hsxcgghve43ppsv2nzqwbewm.txt