Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Universal Law - Less Wrong
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pseudonymous.com says: "A law is just a pattern in the behaviour of the universe we do not know of any exceptions to."
No. The law is the putative explanation of the pattern. As for what a law actually is, I think David Armstrong's approach is promising (a law is a "contingent necessitation between universals"), but to really make progress we would have to be able to say what causation itself is.