DESPRE IDEEA INVARIABILITĂȚII LEGILOR NATURALE LA COMTE ȘI MILL
ON THE IDEA OF NATURAL LAWS INVARIABILITY IN COMTE AND MILL

Summary/Abstract: My aim in this paper is to argue that the philosophical positivist project developed by Comte have to be connected with the ideas of explanation by laws and of natural laws invariability. Mill worked with the same concept about the invariability of natural laws but in a different psilosophical framework structured around a phenomenalist epistemology. My thesis is that the idea of laws invariability could be elucidated by philosophical analysis in relation with the concepts of induction, cause and uniformity of nature. Moreover, I think that there were already proposed three different interpretations in philosophical literature: the first, called by me „the standard interpretation” is based on the so called primacy of induction as a source of knowledge, the second tries to reveal the pressupositions which support the positivist project, namely, the uniformity of nature principle, and the third considers the millian project as an attempt to naturalize the epistemological approach of induction. Anyway, I think that whatever interpretation we accept the epistemological profit was that together with Mill we have reached the distinction between empiric regularities, causal laws and the general principle of nature uniformity.

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