On Wheeler's notion of “law without law” in physics

Foundations of Physics 16 (6):565-572 (1986)
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Wheeler's idea that physical “laws” would not appear in a truly fundamental description of nature is critically examined

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Objective knowledge: an evolutionary approach.Karl Raimund Popper - 1972 - New York: Oxford University Press.
The anthropic cosmological principle.John D. Barrow - 1986 - New York: Oxford University Press. Edited by Frank J. Tipler.

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