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According to regularity theorists, the only difference between laws and accidental regularities is that laws have some special epistemic or pragmatic or logical trappings (e.g., they contain projectible predicates like "˜rest mass 'rather than" ˜grue 'or they form part of a powerful deductive theory).

A New Weapon Against Freedom and ID: Volksverhetzung 2007

Helm argues that a projectible pattern of such emotions with a common focus constitute caring about that focus.

Love Helm, Bennett 2009

More specifically, he proposes (1992a) that the type, as the archetype of the quasi-natural kind which comprises the tokens, has just those projectible properties that all the tokens have.

Types and Tokens Wetzel, Linda 2006

Instead he views the type as what he calls the archetype of the kind, defined as something that models all the tokens of a kind with respect to projectible questions but not something that admits of answers to individuating questions.

Types and Tokens Wetzel, Linda 2006

By modus tollens, the disjunctive sum of physical realizers of pain is likewise projectible.

Multiple Realizability Bickle, John 2006

Returning to the first point about predicate-individuation, Davidson claims that “it is just the predicates which are projectible, the predicates that enter into valid inductions, that determine what counts as a change” (Davidson 1995, 272).

Anomalous Monism Yalowitz, Steven 2005

Goodman urges that which predicates are projectible -- for us, here, now -- depends in part on the inductive practices of our community, on which predicates its members have successfully projected in the past.

Relativism Swoyer, Chris 2003

Goodman 1954 drew the attention of philosophers of science to the important point that only some hypotheses, the projectible ones, are in the running for confirmation by observations, and that projectibility judgments are in some way or other a posteriori judgments informed by previously established theories and practices.

Scientific Realism Boyd, Richard 2002

T is projectible (that is, theoretically plausible in the light of the best established science).

Scientific Realism Boyd, Richard 2002

The observations in O were obtained under conditions which embody controls for each of the experimental artifacts or errors of sampling which are suggested by projectible conceptions of the relevant observational or experimental conditions.

Scientific Realism Boyd, Richard 2002