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Laws of nature

For Berkeley: the fixed rules by which the spirit we depend on produces in us the ideas of sense. We learn them from experience.

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, George Berkeley

Explained in

• A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, George Berkeley
• Brief Answers to the Big Questions, Stephen Hawking

  The rules the universe follows, as far as science can tell. Hawking builds every one of his answers on them.

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