Economists sometimes do try to reduce behavior to law-like predictability.
I don't think history will every be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior.
Scientific knowledge aspires to law-like completeness (e.g. covering the motion of all heavenly objects, and not only the movement of the sun relative to the earth).
Their components would not themselves be purely empirical terms since many would be understood in terms of dispositional properties, which, in turn, involved reference to law-like generalizations.
As particularly Hempel (1965) has argued, to explain an event involves at least implicitly an appeal to law-like regularities providing us with reasons for expecting that an event of a certain kind will occur under specific circumstances.
But as policy makers contemplate writing laws and pushing for change to address the causes of increasing rates of childhood obesity in this country, S.S.B. manufacturers have consistently lobbied against everything from taxes on their product to laws like New York City's attempted ban on large sugary drinks.
There are fewer clinics than ever due to laws like the one in Mississippi.
Dwayne's article called for love to be the Adventist church's official response to laws like these.
Block noted that people were becoming increasingly open to laws like the one proposed in Luxembourg in part because they were the logical next step in widespread efforts to treat all living beings and the planet more humanely.
In many cases, the banks outsourced their foreclosure operations to law firms like that of David J. Stern, of Florida, which served clients like Citigroup, GMAC and others.
"I don't follow all the 48 laws," he said, adding, in reference to Law 15, "Like, I've never crushed anyone totally".
