RE: What are Laws of Nature?
March 21, 2022 at 7:15 am
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2022 at 7:24 am by The Grand Nudger.)
IDK, I doubt that a poll here would bear that one out - though it may be true somewhere of someone. I suspect it's more the case that you believe something other people hold (to) amounts to such a thing, regardless of whether they'd see it as such or agree even in principle. Particularly in the example of laws of nature and misapprehensions as to what they imply conceived of as normative. Descriptive laws are very much a worms eye view - to continue with the semantics.
I suspect that a great deal of the confusion about this is a product of the time in which the terms arose. We might not even call them laws of nature if we were the first at bat. I'm trying to wrap my head around what a gods eye view would be - but it's a pregnant notion. It seems it would have to be more than just what we can observe. More than just what some other more competent but equally contingent being can observe. We don't have anything like that, or, if we do, I'm unaware of it. What would you give as an example of something like that?
I suspect that a great deal of the confusion about this is a product of the time in which the terms arose. We might not even call them laws of nature if we were the first at bat. I'm trying to wrap my head around what a gods eye view would be - but it's a pregnant notion. It seems it would have to be more than just what we can observe. More than just what some other more competent but equally contingent being can observe. We don't have anything like that, or, if we do, I'm unaware of it. What would you give as an example of something like that?
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