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The purpose of the paper is to discuss the question of the completeness of physical laws (laws of nature) beginning with some related questions in the tradition and continuing with recent problems.
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Weingartner, P. (1997). Can the Laws of Nature (Physics) be Complete?. In: Dalla Chiara, M.L., Doets, K., Mundici, D., van Benthem, J. (eds) Logic and Scientific Methods. Synthese Library, vol 259. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0487-8_23
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