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Primitivism About Laws Of Nature
Laws of nature (like F=ma or the law of gravity) are acceptable as primitive facts that are not reducible to or explainable by anything else, yet do the work of explaining everything else; every account of the world must stop somewhere, and laws are a natural, non-spooky stopping point in terms of which possibility, counterfactuals, chance and probability can all be analyzed.
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Tim MaudlinEvidence Quote
“every account of the world has to reach where your spade is turned as wittgenstein said... you have to reach a point where you say okay these look like pretty reasonable things to postulate as not admitting of further analysis”
Created: 6/14/2026, 1:58:49 AM
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