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Lewis' Account of Counterfactuals is Incongruent with Lewis' Account of Laws of Nature
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In this paper we argue that there is a problem with the conjunction of David Lewis' account of counterfactual conditionals and his account of laws of nature. This is a pressing problem since both accounts are individually plausible, and popular.Author Profiles
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