Full Idea
Causal laws are consequences of those propositions which we should take as axioms if we knew everything and organized it as simply as possible in a deductive system.
Gist of Idea
Causal laws result from the simplest axioms of a complete deductive system
Source
Frank P. Ramsey (Law and Causality [1928], §B)
Book Reference
Ramsey,Frank: 'Philosophical Papers', ed/tr. Mellor,D.H. [CUP 1990], p.150
A Reaction
Cf. Idea 9418.
Related Idea
Idea 9418 All knowledge needs systematizing, and the axioms would be the laws of nature [Ramsey]