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Full Idea
Even if we knew everything, we should still want to systematize our knowledge as a deductive system, and the general axioms in that system would be the fundamental laws of nature.
Gist of Idea
All knowledge needs systematizing, and the axioms would be the laws of nature
Source
Frank P. Ramsey (Law and Causality [1928], §A)
Book Ref
Ramsey,Frank: 'Philosophical Papers', ed/tr. Mellor,D.H. [CUP 1990], p.143
A Reaction
This is the Mill-Ramsey-Lewis view. Cf. Idea 9420.
Related Idea
Idea 9420 Causal laws result from the simplest axioms of a complete deductive system [Ramsey]