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    It is not the case that If an agent could have chosen otherwise, the best system systematizing that counterfactual history might yield different laws, making 'same laws, different choice' metaphysically incoherent.

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    • 1.Laws can be strict and exceptionless while counterfactuals about choices remain true—they track dispositional properties, not law violations.
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    • 2.The 'best system' criterion is pragmatic, not metaphysically fundamental; different systematizations coexist without incoherence.
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    • 3.Saying 'could have chosen otherwise' might mean consistent with agents' capacities, not that alternative physics is genuinely possible.
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    • 1.Laws of nature are descriptive regularities systematizing actual and counterfactual facts, not independent constraints on possibility.
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    • 2.If an agent could have chosen differently, that counterfactual scenario is genuinely possible and must be included in the best system.
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    • 3.A system that accommodates both actual laws AND the counterfactual choice would be less elegant, forcing us to revise one or the other.
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