Combining Philosophers

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

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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

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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

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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]