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Ideas for Anaxarchus, Roger Scruton and Franciscus Toletus

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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

3888	Hume assumes that necessity can only be de dicto, not de re [Scruton]
	Full Idea: It was one of the assumptions of Hume's empiricism that all necessities are de dicto: i.e. they are artefacts of language.
	From: Roger Scruton (Modern Philosophy:introduction and survey [1994], 13.5)