Combining Philosophers

Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Gottfried Leibniz and John Heil

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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 2. Necessity as Primitive

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Some necessary truths are brute, and others derive from final causes [Leibniz]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 5. Modality from Actuality

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A perfect idea of an object shows that the object is possible [Leibniz]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 6. Necessity from Essence

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If basic physics has natures, then why not reality itself? That would then found the deepest necessities [Heil]