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Can we perceive the natural laws, which have shaped our ability to perceive?
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March 26, 2017

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I'm not sure I would use

Stephen Maitzen
March 30, 2017 (changed March 30, 2017) Permalink

I'm not sure I would use quite the verb "perceive" to describe our cognitive grasp of natural laws, but I don't see any reason why we can't discover at least some natural laws, including those that have shaped our ability to perceive (or discover). That is, I don't see any reason why a natural law's having shaped our ability to perceive should make that natural law especially hard for us to discover. It's not as if we should think of natural laws as having purposely shaped our ability to perceive in order to keep themselves hidden from us.

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