 Hempel’s critics—both early and late—have not always shown an appreciation for the full dimensions of his explication. Michael Scriven (1959), for example, once objected to “the deductive model, with its syllogistic form, where no student of elementary logic could fail to complete the inference, given the premise” (1959: 462), when no restriction is placed on the complexity of the relevant laws or the intricacy of these deductions (Hempel 1965c: 339). Similar objections have been lodged more recently by William Bechtel and Adele Abrahamsen (2005), for example, who claim, in defense of “the mechanist alternative”, that, among its many benefits,