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"Nature may be the way it is because of some accident that happened at some point in time. Call this the historical answer. Or nature may be the way it is because that is the simplest way it could be. Call this the Galilean answer. The historical answer [...] is never deep. Things could well have been otherwise. [...] By contrast, the Galilean answer implies that things couldn't have been otherwise.[..]
— Aug 12, 2015 09:42AM
"Nature may be the way it is because of some accident that happened at some point in time. Call this the historical answer. Or nature may be the way it is because that is the simplest way it could be. Call this the Galilean answer. The historical answer [...] is never deep. Things could well have been otherwise. [...] By contrast, the Galilean answer implies that things couldn't have been otherwise.[..]
