@article{Halpin1999-HALNNA,pages = {630--643},year = {1999},publisher = {Blackwell Publishing},journal = {No\^us},author = {John F. Halpin},abstract = {character. So, we have learned from early on that laws are meant to portray a sort of necessity in nature. The comings and goings described by law are not merely contingently related. Rather, it is part of the concept of law that these events are connected in some significant way: "nomically" connected. One important desideratum for an account of law, then, is that it respect and perhaps explain this modal character.},number = {4},title = {Nomic Necessity and Empiricism},volume = {33}}@