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Comment author: Caledonian2 05 April 2008 12:36:03AM 0 points [-]

"You said this is a physical law without material consequences, but I define physical laws as things that have material consequences!

If the law has no material consequences, it doesn't matter whether we assert it to be true or false. The two states are identical in every way. Asserting that the law is true, or false, is therefore incorrect. It is neither; it is incoherent and thus can not be true or false.

This is not a matter of personal definition.