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215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The UMean's Opposition to Explanation
"I think I won the same wavelength. Even though the UMean doesn't think of the laws as extra ontological entities that are governing anything, we can still figure out what the laws are," he says. "They're just employing our ordinary notions of causation and using as though they understand it applying there." The right way to think about laws is not as explaining by producing. They explain mostly by unifying,. What the laws do is they unify.
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