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Laws and Counterfactuals: Defusing an Argument against the Humean View of Laws

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2012

Kaave Lajevardi
Kaave Lajevardi*
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Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran
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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 50 , Issue 4 , December 2011 , pp. 751 - 758
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 2012

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