If a principle generates empirically confirmed, non-trivial predictions across independent domains, its cognitive status as lawlike is established regardless of definitional concerns.
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Equated with the Supreme Ultimate; the source of the possibility for all existence, representing the potential of a thing that precedes its actual realisation.
definitional concerns(as used in logic and philosophy of language)
Questions or problems about how exactly we define or word something, as opposed to whether it actually works in practice.
independent domains(as used in philosophy of science)
Separate areas or fields of study that don't directly influence each other (for example, physics and biology are independent domains).
lawlike(Distinguished from merely true universal generalizations; relevant to which predicate pairings are scientifically legitimate)
Having the form and content suitable to express a genuine law of nature, as opposed to an accidental or gerrymandered generalization.