How to be humean

This chapter argues that Humean analyses do not provide content-preserving reductions and non-trivial accounts of the reference. It introduces a distinction between structure in the realm of Being and structure in the representations of Being. The chapter argues that there are good reasons not to expect content-preserving reductions of the modal to the non-modal at the level of content, or useful mappings of content-level structures into structures at the level of Being. In the rest of the chapter, the author deals with the relationship between content-level structure and structure at the level of Being. The debate between the Humean and non-Humean should be reconceived as a debate about whether non-Humean facts play a substantive role in the story of how beliefs about laws and chances are formed and used.