Sayahpour, Saman (2026) On Laws Between Contexts. [Preprint] Abstract ross-context regularities such as Okun’s Law hold across systems that generate them through demonstrably different mechanisms. Universalist accounts of social-scientific laws founder on their locality; invariance accounts operate within single systems; mechanism-based accounts of extrapolation predict failures that practice does not deliver. I argue that social-scientific laws are functorial invariants: each rule-constituted..

On Laws Between Contexts
Sayahpour; Saman
