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Old 03-April-2008, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Ivan Viehoff View Post
It seems likely to me that particles behave in accordance with physical laws which completely describe their behaviour, probabilitically as appropriate, in any circumstances. Whether we are capable of discovering/describing them is a separate matter
It is interesting that you would claim that I agree with everything you said, because to me this statement is the core of your position, and I have advanced an argument to point out the flaws in this position. Particles don't behave in accordance with laws, we create an axiomatic system that creates both the concept of particles and the concept of laws, so we are of course capable of discovering/describing them, we created the concepts. When we are done creating the concepts, we evaluate their usefulness in understanding reality, and iterate the process, but if we lose track along the way of the difference between our mental constructions and reality, we are led to make unsupportable claims like "everything is unifiable". To me that position seems completely counter to the one you were advancing, so I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on whether or not we agree!
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