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The physical world recently came to an end. The cosmic scribe, Sam, had diligently recorded everything that had happened, and the cosmic pattern expert, Pat, on the basis of a thorough examination of Sam's data, got to work on figuring out which (non-trivial) true universal generalisations held. She noticed that a description of very early conditions of the world-conditions Sam recorded when things began to settle down after the Big Bang-plus a subset of her list of regularities were sufficient to entail all subsequent items on Sam's list. Being a Humean about laws, Pat concluded that she had thereby discovered what the laws of the physical world were. She also concluded that the world was deterministic. (She was most pleased with this discovery, being a naturally neat and tidy person.)
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