id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_jebeiromxfax5oo4exwikwdlvq Marc Lange Conservation Laws in Scientific Explanations: Constraints or Coincidences?* 2011 21 .pdf application/pdf 9382 600 56 Conservation Laws in Scientific Explanations: Constraints or Coincidences? Conservation Laws in Scientific Explanations: Constraints or Coincidences? Hence, each separate top-down "explanation" that apparently appeals to the comprehensive law of energy conservation in order to explain conjunct is explained by a different force law, and so the principle is Archimedes' Principle from energy conservation in gravitational interactions, then, appears not to be a top-down explanation. gravitational-force law helps to explain both Archimedes' Principle and energy conservation not to be an arbitrary conjunction of various conservation laws regarding separate kinds of force. enable the comprehensive law of energy conservation to help explain Archimedes' Principle despite the derivation's requiring for its validity only law of energy conservation as a constraint on the kinds of forces there A top-down explanation of Archimedes' Principle from the comprehensive law of energy conservation would thus make an explanatory contribution that cannot be made by a bottom-up explanation, no matter force laws explain why energy is always conserved. ./cache/work_jebeiromxfax5oo4exwikwdlvq.pdf ./txt/work_jebeiromxfax5oo4exwikwdlvq.txt