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A contemporary analytic philosopher defends a Non-Humean approach, Minimal Primitivism, where laws are taken at face value. Fundamental laws exist; they are fundamental features of reality, not reducible to anything else. This is a Non-Humean stance in contrast to the Humean stance where laws of nature are just convenient shorthands that summarise our experience but may or may not reflect the deep nature of reality.

includes an interesting discussion of how Legrange took seriously Biship Berkeley's criticism of calculus and how he worked towards modern rigorous calculus

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