{"id":8318,"date":"2019-05-22T16:06:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/law-like_statement\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:06:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:24","slug":"law-like_statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/law-like_statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Law-like statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a statement resembling a law that is not accepted and perhaps rejected, and sometimes not general enough to be a law because it refers to single objects [e.g., <a href=\"http:\/\/kepler.nasa.gov\/Mission\/JohannesKepler\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/kepler.nasa.gov\/Mission\/JohannesKepler\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Johannes Kepler<\/a> (1571-1630) and his laws of planetary motion around the sun, which do not mention suns and planets in general]. &nbsp;Statements made about the nature of ontogenetic development tend to be of this nature.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"explanation\">Explanation<\/a>, <a href=\"law\">Law<\/a>, <a href=\"laws_of_nature\">Laws of nature<\/a>, Ontogenetic development  <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a statement resembling a law that is not accepted and perhaps rejected, and sometimes not general enough to be a law because it refers to single objects [e.g., Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) and his laws of planetary motion around the sun, which do not mention suns and planets in general]. &nbsp;Statements made about the nature &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/law-like_statement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Law-like statement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}