Full Idea
If the world really does have its own nomological structure, that a systematization merely describes, why are the laws not to be equated with the nomological structure itself, rather than with the system that describes it?
Gist of Idea
If the best system describes a nomological system, the laws are in nature, not in the description
Source
Stephen Mumford (Laws in Nature [2004], 03.4)
Book Reference
Mumford,Stephen: 'Laws in Nature' [Routledge 2006], p.44