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    Laws of nature must be objective features of reality, not... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The laws of nature are those generalisations in the collection of truths that best satisfy the three measures of strength, simplicity, and fit.

    Laws of nature must be objective features of reality, not artifacts of which linguistic framework we happen to prefer.

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    • 1.Physical predictions succeed identically across all linguistic frameworks, suggesting they track mind-independent regularities.
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    • 2.If laws were framework-artifacts, we could engineer reality by switching languages. We cannot, so laws transcend language.
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    • 3.Pre-human physics operated identically to post-human physics, indicating laws exist independent of human conceptual schemes.
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    • 1.Laws only become determinate through formalization; different formalizations yield different 'laws' from identical phenomena.
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    • 2.Successful prediction requires framework-fit, not metaphysical objectivity. Ptolemaic astronomy predicted eclipses effectively.
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    • 3.Physics describes compressible patterns in data, not reality's intrinsic furniture. The map-territory distinction matters.
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