TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wagner, Gerhard
T1  - Typicality and minutis rectis laws: from physics to sociology
T2  - Journal for general philosophy of science
N2  - This paper contributes to the clarification of the concept of “typicality” discussed in contemporary philosophy of physics by conceiving the nomological status of a typical behaviour such as that expressed in the Second Law of Thermodynamics as a “minutis rectis law”. A brief sketch of the discovery of “typicality” shows that there were ideas of typical behaviour not only in physics but also in sociology. On this basis and in analogy to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, it is shown that the nomological status of sociological laws such as Gresham’s Law can also be conceived as “minutis rectis laws”.
KW  - Ludwig Boltzmann
KW  - Ceteris paribus laws
KW  - Minutis rectis laws
KW  - Physics
KW  - Second Law of Thermodynamics
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Typicality
KW  - Max Weber
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/63757
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-637573
SN  - 1572-8587
N1  - Open Access funding provided by Projekt DEAL.
VL  - 51
IS  - 3
SP  - 447
EP  - 458
PB  - Springer Science + Business Media B.V
CY  - Dordrecht [u.a.]
ER  -