Regularities presuppose nomological necessity, but random atomic collisions generate only contingent patterns, leaving the uniformity of nature inexplicable on Neo-Epicurean grounds.
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nomological necessity(Distinguished from stronger modal notions of necessity in the context of supervenience)
A form of necessity that holds in virtue of laws of nature rather than logical or metaphysical necessity.
uniformity of nature(Central presupposition in Hume's problem of induction)
The assumption that the future will resemble the past — i.e., that natural regularities observed historically will continue to hold — which is presupposed in all inductive knowledge but cannot be rationally grounded without circularity