Jayson_Virissimo comments on Natural Laws Are Descriptions, not Rules - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 07 August 2012 12:29:01PM 7 points [-]

In a scientific culture immersed in theism, it was unproblematic, even natural, to think of physical laws as rules.

It wasn't just theism that made talk of natural law seem warranted. Many of the pioneers of the scientific revolution (as much as there was such a thing) were, in fact, lawyers.