
76 | Ned Hall on Possible Worlds and the Laws of Nature
From Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Published 12/9/2019

From Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Published 12/9/2019
It's too easy to take laws of nature for granted. Sure, gravity is pulling us toward Earth today; but how do we know it won't be pushing us away tomorrow? We extrapolate from past experience to future expectation, but what allows us to do that? "Humeans" (after David Hume, not a misspelling of…