Laws and Symmetry
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Bas C. van Fraassen
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Library
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1990
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Oxford University Press, USA
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English
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Metaphysicians speak of laws of nature in terms of necessity and universality, and that conception played a role in the birth of modern physics some centuries ago, but today physicists speak in terms of symmetry, transformations, and invariance. Laws and Symmetry's three main objectives are: first,