 Lange’s basic idea is that laws are lawlike because they are true in a wide range of possible conditions. Most importantly, the laws do not only hold true in any (non-nomic) actual conditions but also remain true under all (non-nomic) counterfactual suppositions. Along these lines, Lange (2000, 48f.; cf. 2009a, 20) proposes a preliminary definition of laws in terms of nomic preservation: