Sentence examples similar to cp law from inspiring English sources

Another plausible name for this kind of cp-law would be to call them 'equality cp' laws (this was suggested by the referee), because they merely require that the remainder factors are 'equal' in the two compared states of the described system, rather than that some of them have to be excluded (as in exclusive cp laws).

In contrast, exclusive cp laws assert the connection between antecedent and consequent only under the condition that certain factors are excluded.

Cartwright explicitly calls Snell's law a cp-law.

Their example is the alleged cp-law "cp, all spherical bodies conduct electricity".

Schurz (2002) suggests distinguishing between two conceptions of cp-law: comparative versus exclusive.

The basic idea of the Normal Conditions Approach is that a cp-law L holds when normal conditions obtain.

On the other hand, if there is no significant change of Y's value, the cp-law is strongly disconfirmed, even in its unrestricted form.

An exclusive cp-law may be true although its antecedent is not at all nomologically or causally relevant for its consequent.

A definite exclusive cp-law specifies the disturbing factors which are excluded (or the validity conditions which are required) in the antecedent of the law.

More generally, it restricts the possible values of the remainder variables Z1,…,Zn to those value ranges where they cannot disturb the cp-law.

Schurz (2002, 364) demonstrates that according to these accounts "if a person looks to the right, she will see a kangaroo" is a true exclusive cp-law.