
Fallible Animals Episode 9: Laws vs. Principles
Fallible Animals
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The Importance of Constructive Theoretic Principles
We might still solve problems in each field by resorting to constructive theoretic principles that tell us what can possibly happen and what cannot possibly happen. The principle of conservation of energy constrains any object-level theory and its laws such that no object- level theory, both past and future, may violate this principle.Object-level theory may help us to develop future object-level theories by providing many such principles to which all object-level theorists must conform.
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