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Logan Chipkin: Constructor Theory provides a useful demarcation between laws and principles. The notion of law itself underwent a similar split some time ago, having previously been used to cover both man-made law and the laws of science. Ancient Greeks such as Aristotle in the 4th century BC began to treat moral law and scientific law as applying to distinct domains.

We discuss the difference between laws versus principles as elucidated by constructor theory, and why it matters. Constructor theory may be thought of as a 'theory of theories' whose principles constrain other theories. Just as these subsidiary, object-level theories constrain the behavior of physical phenomena, so too constructor theory, as a meta-level theory, constrains the behavior of object-level theories both known and unknown. Constructor theoretic principles can also constrain and solve problems with theories that explain inherently unpredictable phenomena, such as those of biology, economics, and epistemology.

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Constructor Theory of Life - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1407.0681.pdf

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