Sentence examples for descriptive laws from inspiring English sources

The task of the sciences, and of knowledge in general, is to study the facts and regularities of nature and society and to formulate the regularities as (descriptive) laws; explanations of phenomena can consist in no more than the subsuming of special cases under general laws.

For instance, true descriptive laws ought to be accepted.

They claim that Gestalt principles can just provide descriptive laws rather than a perceptual processing model [80].

There may, indeed must, be kinematic laws describing how such patterns vary, but nothing about any given time slice of such patterns accounts for the fact that they are subject to just those descriptive laws.

Both men developed descriptive laws.

By combining 1) his three laws of motion, 2) the calculus, which he termed "fluxions," and 3) an inverse-square law of gravitation, Newton proved that the planetary orbits naturally and exactly satisfy all three of Kepler's descriptive laws.

Frege suggests that every descriptive law can be reformulated as a prescription to think in accordance with it.

In other cases the prescription might be a set of instructions on how to reach the truth stated in a descriptive law.

Moreover, Frege points out that the descriptive psychological laws which for the psychological logician provide the basis for (psycho- logical psycho- logicalre laws of 'taking-to-be-true': they state the conditions under which humans acceprescriptionsof judgments or the varedity of inferences; but they do not determine the conditions under which judgments are true and inferences valaws

One should recall that Hart [1961] characterized, perhaps off-handedly, his project as one in the descriptive sociology of law.

He begins by pointing out that the word 'law' is ambiguous: it can refer to descriptive or to prescriptive laws.