ABSTRACT
My differences with Carl Hoefer are about how to understand the “fundamental” equations of modern physics. He says they are not to be read as statements of capacity or with a ceteris paribus restriction. I claim they must if they are to be plausibly taken as true (or at least true for the nonce). Much of the dispute depends on the scope of inductions. I take it as a very good rule of thumb that smaller inductions are better warranted than larger and, for reasons I rehearse in my discussion of Suárez in this volume, I am especially suspicious of inductions to the fundamental equations of contemporary physics when they are read as Hoefer desires.
