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Paper IPM / Philosophy / 12247

School of Analytic Philosophy
Title:	Laws and counterfactuals: defusing an argument against the Humean view of laws
Author(s):	kaave Lajevardi
Status:	Published
Journal:	Dialogue
No.:	04
Vol.:	50
Year:	2011
Pages:	751-758
Supported by:	IPM

Abstract:

Appealing to the failure of counterfactual support is a standard device in refuting a Humean view on laws of nature: some true generalizations do not support relevant counterfactuals; therefore not every true general fact is a law of nature?so goes the refutation. I will argue that this strategy does not work, for our understanding of the truth-value of any counterfactual is grounded in our understanding of the lawhood of some statements related to it.

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