Covering Law

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-006845",
  "term": "Covering Law",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Causes are instances of the action of scientific laws in relevant circumstances. That is, a causal explanation consists of deduction from one or more laws and one or more facts concerning relevant conditions. Synonyms include the deductive-nomological model and the inductive-statistical model (for deterministic and probabilistic laws, respectively) as well as Hempel's model, the Hempel-Oppenheim model and the Popper-Hempel model.\n\n2. Causes are instances of the action of scientific laws in relevant circumstances. That is, a causal explanation consists of deduction from one or more laws and one or more facts concerning relevant conditions.",
  "subject": "Information management and systems",
  "references": [
    "CADDIS: Causal Concepts",
    "Causal Concepts"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/covering-law/"
}