army1987 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: [deleted] 12 August 2012 09:58:36PM 1 point [-]

I think it's more like there are several concepts which share the same label. If a tree falls in the forest, and no one hears it, does it make a sound?

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 12 August 2012 10:58:44PM *  3 points [-]

The tree in the forest is a case of various clear concepts (of sound) clearly implying different true answers.

The problem of Being is a problem of finding a clear concept that implies answers that many people find intuitively plausible.

It is more like the problem of being perfectly confident that various mathematical statements are true, while finding it very difficult to say just what it is that those statements are true about.