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6.36

If there were a law of causality, it might run: "There are natural laws".

But that can clearly not be said: it shows itself.

6.361

In ther terminology of Hertz we might say: Only uniform connections are thinkable.

6.362

What can be described can happen too, and what is excluded by the law of causality cannot be described.

6.363

The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.