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244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Explanation

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

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The Existence of a Possible Compact Statement of Regularity

There's no sense in which one is the right one, one provides better explanations or anything like that. But I think it's up to us. I don't think explanations are spooky things out there in the world either. The existence of a possible compact statement of regularity is very, very useful,. And so any time two theories are mathematically equivalent, whether or not one is true or the other is false, those mean the same thing.

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