 Analogously, Lange argues for a principled distinction between laws and accidents within the framework of his stability theory (section 6.1). However, Lange’s strategy to distinguish laws from accidents seems to be partly motivated by the intuition that minimal invariance in Woodward &amp; Hitchcock’s sense is too weak to account for real life stability displayed by scientific generalizations. Correspondingly, Lange (2009b: 297–302) argues that Woodward &amp; Hitchcock’s account fails to distinguish laws from mere accidents and therefore also fails to account for the laws’ characteristic explanatory power. 