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178 | Jody Azzouni on What Is and Isn't Real

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is the Existence of the Physical Laws of Physics?

Hogeno: There is an ongoing debate about the status of the laws of physics. He says we can use a certain branch of mathematics to represent aspects of the physical world, but that doesn't mean we need to attribute reality to our abstractions. "If you have a generalization, you may be able to explain it in terms of something else, other generalizations, or you may not," Hogeno adds.

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