Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Adam Smith, Democritus (attrib) and Brian Ellis

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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 3. Types of Necessity
13576 Necessities are distinguished by their grounds, not their different modalities [Ellis]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 5. Metaphysical Necessity
12668 Metaphysical necessity holds between things in the world and things they make true [Ellis]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility
5479 Scientific essentialists say science should define the limits of the possible [Ellis]
10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity
12687 Metaphysical necessities are those depending on the essential nature of things [Ellis]
10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 5. Modality from Actuality
5483 Essentialists deny possible worlds, and say possibilities are what is compatible with the actual world [Ellis]
10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 6. Necessity from Essence
13570 Individual essences necessitate that individual; natural kind essences necessitate kind membership [Ellis]
5447 Metaphysical necessities are true in virtue of the essences of things [Ellis]
10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 3. A Posteriori Necessary
5476 Essentialists say natural laws are in a new category: necessary a posteriori [Ellis]
10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / a. Conceivable as possible
5478 Imagination tests what is possible for all we know, not true possibility [Ellis]
10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / c. Possible worlds realism
5482 Possible worlds realism is only needed to give truth conditions for modals and conditionals [Ellis]