Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Lycophron, Hilary Putnam and David Hume
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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 10. Impossibility
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Nothing we clearly imagine is absolutely impossible [Hume]
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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity
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Necessity only exists in the mind, and not in objects [Hume]
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If necessity is always relative to a description in a language, then there is only 'de dicto' necessity [Putnam, by O'Grady]
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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility
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Mathematics eliminates possibility, as being simultaneous actuality in sets [Putnam]
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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 6. Probability
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We transfer the frequency of past observations to our future predictions [Hume]
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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 7. Chance
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There is no such thing as chance [Hume]
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10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 1. A Priori Necessary
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A statement can be metaphysically necessary and epistemologically contingent [Putnam]
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10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / a. Conceivable as possible
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Conceivability is no proof of possibility [Putnam]
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