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their velocities are at that instant, changing
at perfectly determinate rates and
in perfectly determinate directions. This
party holds that if this statement were rendered
definite by saying determining indicating just what those accelerations
are in each position of the particles, it would
be the perfect résumé of all the laws of
nature. As for consciousness, these persons
holds that its states are rigidly dependent upon
the instantaneous states of the physical universe,
and that it need not be taken into account, in
saying what will happen in that universe.

This theory makes the uniformity to be
perfectly exact and inflexible. It is such
that given the positions and velocities of

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their velocities are at that instant, changing
at perfectly determinate rates and
in perfectly determinate directions. This
party holds that if this statement were rendered
definite by saying determining indicating just what those accelerations
are in each position of the particles, it would
be the perfect résumé of all the laws of
nature. As for consciousness, these persons
holds that its states are rigidly dependent upon
the instantaneous states of the physical universe,
and that it need not be taken into account, in
saying what will happen in that universe.

This theory makes the uniformity to be
perfectly exact and inflexible. It is such
that given the positions and velocities of