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Helen Beebee on Laws of Nature

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The Relationship Between Fragility and Microstructure

The defender of the Armstrongian necessitarian view is going to say that fragility isn't really a fundamental property. The dispositional essentialist view, I mean, the disposition of the essentialist actually agrees in the case of fragility. But let's imagine that fragility is a fundamental property: A fragile glass could not help but break.

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