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    It is not the case that A Humean best-system law that is accidentally true cannot distinguish between genuine laws and cosmic coincidences sharing the same axiomatic role.

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    • 1.Accidental truth is epistemically inaccessible: we cannot determine from within a system whether its axioms are accidentally true, so the distinction is pragmatically idle.
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    • 2.Best-system laws need only systematize our observations successfully; their metaphysical source is explanatorily irrelevant to their law-like role.
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    • 3.Even accidentally true laws ground counterfactuals and support inductive inference better than mere coincidences, preserving their functional distinction.
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    • 1.If a law is accidentally true, it matches reality by chance, not by expressing genuine necessity or causal structure underlying phenomena.
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    • 2.Best-system accounts identify laws by logical elegance and informativeness, criteria that cosmic coincidences can equally satisfy.
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    • 3.Without a non-accidental truth condition, best-system laws lack the metaphysical grounding that distinguishes nomological from merely statistical regularities.
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