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

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Comment author: MaoShan 16 August 2012 02:37:38AM 1 point [-]

Also, continuing to allow cruder levels can help to validate the more fundamental ones, or even falsify them (which would help refine the fundamental ones). If a description that bases its predictions on fundamental axioms turns out to be unreliable, that can point to a problem in the axioms themselves, even if they look flawless to us, it could be clear where the problem is coming from.