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The Dappled World
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Nancy Cartwright
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2009
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Cambridge University Press
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2009
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Book chapters
pp. 1
Introduction
pp. 23
Fundamentalism versus the patchwork of laws
pp. 35
Fables and models
pp. 49
Nomological machines and the laws they produce
pp. 77
Aristotelian natures and the modern experimental method
pp. 104
Causal diversity; causal stability
pp. 137
Ceteris paribus laws and socio-economic machines
pp. 152
Probability machines: chance set-ups and economic models
pp. 179
How bridge principles set the domain of quantum theory
pp. 211
How quantum and classical theories relate
pp. 234
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