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That's the point - they're concise descriptions of observable behaviour in terms of a specific set of mathematical metaphors.

They have no independent mathematical derivation from some underlying set of first principles.



That sounds like a definition of 'just assumed' by which most things are just assumed. That would be broad to the point of uninterestingness and I wonder if that's what the poster really meant.


>most things are just assumed.

ah! but thats the problem - most assumed things are wrong. it is non-trivial to generate a set of assumptions that matches observations with the current technology and with all future technology, with no base from which to derive your new laws.


most assumed things are wrong.

That sounds suspiciously like an assumed thing. Compared to Maxwell's equations, at a minimum.




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