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Qualitative Identity and Uniformity
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J.S. Mill asserted ‘… what happens once, will, under a sufficient degree of similarity of circumstances, happen again’.1 The word ‘again’ was intended to be understood as ‘at any other time and at any other place’. The principle thus enunciated amounts to the famous principle of the uniformity of nature. It implies that locative properties are distinguished from standard properties, among others, in that the regularities observed in nature are invariant with respect to location in space and time, but not with respect to standard properties.
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