Nancy Cartwright has argued that there are no fundamental laws as such. Only phenomenological/ constitutive
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“All laws are contingent” is probably my minimalist Hume++ epistemology.
But inventions can be absolute.
Therefore engineers are higher status than mathematicians or scientists.
QED
This is Rao’s law and theorem
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“Laws are contingent, inventions are absolute”
is a great argument for asking “how can we do x” by default rather than “can we do x”
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Should be fine considering I seriously doubt causation is fundamental. More “laws are contingent” 😊
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The most conservative position I’ve been able to define is that events, change, and perspectives are real. All else is Trumpism.
Causation isn’t a well posed idea once you go quantum. Only entanglements rippling across perspectives.
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