-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of lweiger at umich.edu
Quoting Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu>:
> --A scientific law is a contingent understanding of the world that
> is almost certain to be replaced in the future; it is not an
> immutable, unchanging characteristic of the universe that existed
> before humans.
But there may be (probably are) immutable, unchanging characteristics of the universe, and the fact that some of our prior descriptions turned out to be "mere" approximations isn't cause for skepticism of any sort.
-- Luke
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It's also possible that nature has no invariants at all, a la Heraclites, Buddha, Peirce......It's also possible we will never have an answer to that question.
Ian