Combining Philosophers

Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, S.Mumford/R.Lill Anjum and M Loux / D Zimmerman

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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 1. Types of Modality

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Dispositionality has its own distinctive type of modality [Mumford/Anjum]

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Dispositionality is the core modality, with possibility and necessity as its extreme cases [Mumford/Anjum]

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Dispositions may suggest modality to us - as what might not have been, and what could have been [Mumford/Anjum]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 7. Natural Necessity

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Relations are naturally necessary when they are generated by the essential mechanisms of the world [Mumford/Anjum]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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Possibility might be non-contradiction, or recombinations of the actual, or truth in possible worlds [Mumford/Anjum]

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

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Maybe truths are necessitated by the facts which are their truthmakers [Mumford/Anjum]