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

32 Post author: pragmatist 08 August 2012 04:27AM

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Comment author: Pentashagon 08 August 2012 06:05:57PM 0 points [-]

I thought the post was using the word "rules" to refer to the cause of the patterns and regularities apparent in the territory and "laws" to refer to the map we create. If the patterns simply exist acausally then I would call that a "no-rules" scenario.