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    Charging Humeanism with counterintuitive law-breaking pow... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Ascribing to humans the power to have broken the laws of nature (in the sense that their different choices would have made Maxwell's equations non-laws) is counterintuitive and not directly supported by Humeanism.

    Charging Humeanism with counterintuitive law-breaking power illicitly imports non-Humean modal commitments into an account that explicitly rejects them.

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