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Chris Swoyer

We can often be confident about what would be true in certain counterfactual situations on the basis of evidence gathered here in the actual world, but few would claim the power to make predictions about the actual world on the basis of evidence gathered in merely possible situations.

Chris Swoyer, ‘The Nature of Natural Laws’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 60, no. 3 (September, 1982), p. 217