Can we mock the pretension of "exceptionless equality" while still struggling toward some kind of personal evaluative standard? ❋ Craig Fehrman (2010)
Hypothesis #1: The statement is intended as an exceptionless claim - i.e., "No waitress is smart." ❋ Unknown (2009)
On this deductive-nomological account (Hempel and Oppenheim 1948), an explanation of particular observation statements was analyzed as subsumption under universal (applying throughout the universe), general (exceptionless), necessary (not contingent) laws of nature plus the initial conditions of the particular case. ❋ Darden, Lindley (2009)
For example (Kyburg 1965), it is presumably a law (or at least an exceptionless, counterfactual supporting generalization) that all samples of table salt that have been hexed by being touched with the wand of a witch dissolve when placed in water. ❋ Woodward, James (2009)
To conceive of it as it is in itself, under a description uncontaminated by any reference to human observational capacities, would be to conceive of an immensely detailed complex of mathematical structures, evolving in time in accordance with exceptionless or probabilistic laws. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Again, consider an exceptionless law against desertion from the battlefield in time of war. ❋ Linda Boroff (2009)
No purported “law” in biology has been found to be exceptionless, even for life on earth (in conflict with the generality of laws). ❋ Darden, Lindley (2009)
Clearly part of the motivation for searching for a single exceptionless definition is the impression that there is some real feature of the world (or at least of our spacetime models) which we can hope to capture precisely. ❋ Curiel, Erik (2009)
Further, we might hope that our attempts to find a rigorous and exceptionless definition will help us to better understand the feature itself. ❋ Curiel, Erik (2009)
But perhaps there are no true exceptionless 'laws of nature'. ❋ Unknown (2007)
However the Neogrammarian Hypothesis regarding sound shifts that they are regular and exceptionless has allowes us to elucidate the genetic relationships between languages, poetic elements, and so forth to a degree not otherwise possible. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Even if you think that it vests individuals with some right or other, no one thinks that right is exceptionless and unqualilfied – even the NRA agrees to the ‘no nukes’ exception, and will probably live with the ‘no conventional ICBMs’ restriction, too. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Against Method explicitly drew the “epistemological anarchist” conclusion that there are no useful and exceptionless methodological rules governing the progress of science or the growth of knowledge. ❋ Preston, John (2009)
In the physical sciences, the assumption that there are fundamental, exceptionless laws of nature, and that they have some strong sort of modal force, usually goes unquestioned. ❋ Hoefer, Carl (2008)
A genuine causal sequence falls under a “strict” (that is, exceptionless) law of nature. ❋ Robb, David (2008)
First, nothing less than strict laws (universal, exceptionless, spatio-temporally unrestricted) are required for explanation and the only candidate law in biology is the principle of natural selection (PNS). ❋ Brigandt, Ingo (2008)
But a third and growing class of philosophers holds that (universal, exceptionless, true) laws of nature simply do not exist. ❋ Hoefer, Carl (2008)
It is one thing to say that everything occurring in and around my body, and everything everywhere else, conforms to Maxwell's equations and thus the Maxwell equations are genuine exceptionless regularities, and that because they in addition are simple and strong, they turn out to be laws. ❋ Hoefer, Carl (2008)
This is crucial because in the ordinary/extraordinary-means tradition, one cannot make an a priori exceptionless declaration that a particular treatment is ordinary. ❋ Mike L (2007)
Now, zeroing in on the used of the phrase "in principle" by both the responsum and the nota, Sulmasy begins thus: ...the CDF statement ratifies the views of an international group of Catholic bioethicists who in July 2004 argued that the words “in principle” in the papal allocution did not mean “exceptionless,” but rather the opposite. ❋ Mike L (2007)
