“And if we want to explain the laws, there needs to be some history, some 
process of evolution, some dynamics by which laws change.”

Or —
Meta-laws are just laws.

Jon

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> On Mar 20, 2015, at 5:47 PM, Gary Richmond <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Jon wrote:
> 
> So laws have higher laws
> on their backs to smite them ...
> 
> A pretty piece of poetry. But please state this in simple English so that 
> we'll know exactly what you're saying.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
> 
> 
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>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Jon Awbrey <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Re: Ben Udell
>> At: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/15898
>> 
>> BU: "Who knows how much more radical the change and evolution may be?
>> 
>> Ben, List,
>> 
>> I thought this was always clear, but just to underline the point:
>> It is always possible to imagine or invent extremely radical forms
>> of change and evolution affecting the laws in force from time to time,
>> but neither Peirce nor Smolin is doing that, and such artifices would
>> violate Peirce's assumption of continuity.  So laws have higher laws
>> on their backs to smite them ...
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Jon
>> 
>> 
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