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Exodus111 t1_iqofd5t wrote

Reply to comment by TMax01 in “The objective requires the subjective as a foil if it is to play the scientific role late nineteenth-century philosophers assigned to it, not to mention to become accessible through our perceptual apparatus in new kinds of mathematical and logical symbolism.” by Maxwellsdemon17

> I don't see those rules as arbitrary in any way. They are both functional and necessary.

They are, but also arbitrary.

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TMax01 t1_iqolbqc wrote

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

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twoiko t1_iqp9dzs wrote

Then they are not arbitrary in any meaningful or important way.

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