Talk:Universal law
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This article was nominated for deletion on 28 October 2007. The result of the discussion was Keep. |
[edit] Physical law use of term
Continued from AfD discussion.
I remain fairly certain that universal law as a synonym for physical law is wrong. Universality is just one of the components of a physical law. For example, the common error of saying "Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation" when meaning "Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation." I couldn't locate any use of universal law as a synonym for physical law. I can't speak to universal law generalization, a psych concept, but I don't think it is considered a physical law, which supports my assertion. I'm not suggesting that there is no scientific use of the term--obviously, no one can know all of science--and the term's use in "Models of scientific inquiry" does suggest another use. But the former disambiguation entry linked to physical law, not to Models of scientific inquiry.
Bsherr 02:23, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
