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Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? this question i regard as metaphysical. the laws we find are always hypotheses; which means that they may always be superseded, and that they may possibly be deduced from probability estimates. yet denying causality would be the same as attempting to persuade the theorist to give up his search; and that such an attempt cannot be backed by anything like a proof.
-Karl Popper
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Is The World Ruled By Strict Laws

Karl Popper
Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? this question i regard as metaphysical. the laws we find are always hypotheses; which means that they may always be superseded, and that they may possibly be deduced from probability estimates. yet denying causality would be the same as attempting to persuade the theorist to give up his search; and that such an attempt cannot be backed by anything like a proof.
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