From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed Aug 29 2001 - 01:07:58 MDT
David McDivitt writes
> [Physical laws] are created by people. We make them up as
> we go along. Who else do you think, God?
First, coming from a nominalist :-) this is hardly an indictment!
You think that everything, including mountains and stars, were
created by people.
Second, there is widespread misunderstanding about what we mean
by "physical law". Do we mean the concepts and terminology that
literally make up a physical law as described in the texts? Or
do we mean the behaviors of nature that we try to discover and
investigate? Generally, people of my ilk mean the latter.
Lee
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