Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Lycophron, Hilary Putnam and David Hume

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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 10. Impossibility
Nothing we clearly imagine is absolutely impossible [Hume]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity
If necessity is always relative to a description in a language, then there is only 'de dicto' necessity [Putnam, by O'Grady]
Necessity only exists in the mind, and not in objects [Hume]