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    Challenges→Conflating nomological structure with physical substance commits a category error that reifies mathematical description into ontology.

    If physical substance has only the properties describable by laws, claiming substance exists apart from nomological structure is epistemically inaccessible and metaphysically idle.

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    Epistemically inaccessible(Describing a state (pre-cosmic) that we couldn't possibly have direct knowledge of)
    Something that humans cannot know or understand through reason, observation, or any other method of gaining knowledge.
    Physical substance(in contrast to abstract values or principles)
    Actual material things—like body, blood, or property—that can be physically inherited or passed down.
    metaphysically idle(metaphysics)
    A philosophical term for a claim or distinction that doesn't actually do any real work in explaining how reality is; it's meaningless or pointless.
    nomological structure(philosophy of science/metaphysics)
    The pattern of natural laws and rules that govern how something works; 'nomological' just means 'related to laws of nature.'
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    (Contrasted with substances as ontologically dependent entities.)
    Entities that depend for their existence on substances, being properties of individual objects.

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