Must the fundamental laws of physics be complete?

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 78 (2):312-345 (2009)
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The beauty of electricity, or of any other force, is not that the power is mysterious and unexpected, touching every sense at unawares in turn, but that it is under law... Michael Faraday, Wheatstone's Electric Telegraph's Relation to Science (being an argument in favour of the full recognition of Science as a branch of Education), 1854

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10.1111/j.1933-1592.2009.00246.x

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