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    The best-system account therefore fails to capture the mo... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The laws of nature are those generalisations in the collection of truths that best satisfy the three measures of strength, simplicity, and fit.

    The best-system account therefore fails to capture the modal force that grounds counterfactual support, which is a defining feature of lawhood.

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    • 1.Laws must support counterfactuals: if F were the case, then G would follow. Best-system accounts only describe actual regularities.
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    • 2.Necessity is central to lawhood. Laws govern what must happen, not merely what does happen in our world.
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    • 3.Best-system accounts reduce laws to descriptive summaries, losing the prescriptive modal force that distinguishes laws from accidents.
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    • 1.Best-system accounts incorporate counterfactual support implicitly through simplicity and informativeness criteria built into system selection.
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    • 2.Modal force may not be a primitive feature of laws but rather a derived consequence of what makes something a law (systematicity and explanatory power).
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    • 3.All competing accounts face equal challenges explaining modal force without invoking problematic metaphysical entities like Platonic forms.
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