Ramsey and Lewis's Best Systems Account entails that laws supervene on the Humean mosaic, making the agent's history partly constitutive of the very laws that allegedly constrain them.

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Best Systems Account(the main concept being explained): A theory about what makes something a 'law of nature'—the idea that laws are the simplest and most informative rules we can use to describe and predict how the world works.
Humean Mosaic(Humean metaphysics): The ontological bedrock posited by Humeans, in terms of which all other existent things are to be explicated
Ramsey and Lewis(as the originators of the Best Systems Account): Frank Ramsey and David Lewis were 20th-century philosophers who developed theories about what scientific laws actually are and how they relate to the physical world.
Supervene/Supervenes(as used in metaphysics): When a higher-level property is completely determined by lower-level details—meaning if all the basic facts stay the same, the bigger picture must stay the same too.

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