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This essay is the Foreword to Reichenbach (1976); it is reprinted here (with minor alterations) by permission of the University of California Press.

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Salmon, W.C. Laws, Modalities and Counterfactuals. Synthese 35, 191–229 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485496

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