Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
What are Laws of Nature?
Regularities/structures in a highly complex universe
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Allow for predictions
- Dependent on only a small set of conditions (i.e., independent of very many conditions which could possibly have an effect)
…but why are there laws of nature and how can these laws be discovered and understood by the human mind?
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