(May 17, 2025 at 8:40 pm)emjay Wrote: Okay, I'm sorry if it causes confusion, but that's just how I use the word... the sentence 'the physical laws determine what will happen next' makes perfect sense to me, I'm sorry if it doesn't to you. It doesn't mean they have any intention or anything like that, but if they play out as expected, then I think it's perfectly reasonable to say they determine the outcome... as in they determine what the outcome will be, or is expected, to be.
Then what do you say when competing theories predict and describe the same phenomenon? That they both determine the phenomenon?