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work_fj4c2vgqefdjhmaezundqrbhzq	Aaron Sidney Wright	Fresnel's laws, ceteris paribus	2017	38	.pdf	application/pdf	17206	1381	61	This article is about structural realism, historical continuity, laws of nature, and ceteris paribus history, and analyze Fresnel's Laws' historical trajectory in terms of dynamic ceteris paribus clauses. This paper is dedicated to a philosophical characterization of the structures which survive theory change, using the example of Fresnel's Laws (FL). to Maxwell's 1864 argument before the Royal Society that "light itself is an electromagnetic disturbance in the form of waves propagated through the electromagnetic field according to electromagnetic laws" (the paper was published in 1865. theory of the aether within solid matter.) In this section, I will describe them as ceteris paribus laws, Earman and Roberts (1999) think that the only true laws of nature are exceptionless generalizations of fundamental physics. With this manoeuvre, I view FL as neither exceptionless generalizations, nor among the dangerous, anti-unity-of-science ceteris paribus laws Earman, Roberts, and Smith (2002) are most concerned about.	./cache/work_fj4c2vgqefdjhmaezundqrbhzq.pdf	./txt/work_fj4c2vgqefdjhmaezundqrbhzq.txt