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work_nlp2s2dhlva5lhnsifywjmrn44	Lydia Jaeger	Humean supervenience and best-system laws	2002	18	.pdf	application/pdf	9216	550	66	I claim that, in Lewis's account of lawhood, his intuition about small deviations from a given law statements about possible worlds, if it is to be of interest (note that Lewis defines Humean discussion of counterfactuals or possible worlds, Humean supervenience must therefore hold in If one wants to tie laws as closely as possible to the facts occurring in our world, the most definition; one places the counterfactual situation in worlds where the best-system laws hold. Following Lewis's analysis of counterfactuals in terms of possible worlds (1986a, p. Lewis's intuitions about comparative similarity between worlds, with respect to violation of laws, facts, and sometimes facts win over laws with respect to closeness of possible worlds (Lewis, the possible extension of the best-system account to include statistical laws (for example Lewis, (1998) Lewis, Thau and Hall on Chance and the Best-System Account of Law, defines laws in our world via its own best system.	./cache/work_nlp2s2dhlva5lhnsifywjmrn44.pdf	./txt/work_nlp2s2dhlva5lhnsifywjmrn44.txt