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    It is not the case that The fine-tuning of physical constants constitutes a nomological rather than a contingent gap, since no successor physical theory can render the constants necessary.

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    • 1.A future theory might show current constants are derived quantities from deeper principles, making them necessary within that framework.
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    • 2.The claim assumes present physics is fundamental, but constants may reflect contingent choices in our current formalism, not reality's structure.
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    • 3.Nomological gaps require infinite theoretical regress; constants may instead be necessary features of any logically possible physical system.
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    • 1.Physical laws describe regularities; constants parameterize those laws. No law can necessitate its own parameters without circularity.
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    • 2.Historical theory succession (Newtonian to Einstein) replaced frameworks but never derived previous constants as necessary from first principles.
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    • 3.If constants were theoretically necessary, they'd be derivable from dimensionless ratios alone, yet no unified theory has achieved this.
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