Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Jerrold J. Katz, S.Mumford/R.Lill Anjum and Stephen Read

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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 / 2. Nature of Necessity

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Equating necessity with truth in every possible world is the S5 conception of necessity [Read]

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]