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    It is not the case that Necessitarian accounts (Armstrong, Dretske, Tooley) hold that laws involve genuine nomic necessity between universals, not mere regularities.

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    • 1.Nomic necessity between universals is metaphysically obscure; it's unclear how universals can necessitate rather than merely correlate.
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    • 2.Regularist accounts sufficiently explain laws via counterfactual truth-conditions without positing occult metaphysical necessities.
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    • 3.The law-accident distinction can be drawn via best-systems approaches without invoking intrinsic nomic necessity in nature itself.
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    • 1.Mere regularities cannot explain why laws support counterfactuals; only genuine necessities ground counterfactual conditionals.
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    • 2.If laws were just regularities, we could not distinguish laws from accidental uniformities like 'all gold spheres weigh less than 1000kg'.
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    • 3.Universal properties have intrinsic causal powers; necessity between universals explains why instances must instantiate lawful relations.
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