Are symmetry principles laws of nature, or meta-laws of nature? The intuition is

Are symmetry principles laws of nature, or meta-laws of nature? The intuition is

Are symmetry principles laws of nature, or meta-laws of nature? The intuition is that laws of nature are contingent. That is, it could be different in different logically possible worlds. Does this hold true for symmetry principles? Could there be some symmetric principles that had to hold in all possible worlds?

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