Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, Charles Sanders Peirce and Aristotle
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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity
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What is necessary cannot be otherwise [Aristotle]
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Necessity makes alternatives impossible [Aristotle]
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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 3. Types of Necessity
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A stone travels upwards by a forced necessity, and downwards by natural necessity [Aristotle]
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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 4. De re / De dicto modality
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A deduction is necessary if the major (but not the minor) premise is also necessary [Aristotle]
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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity
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Reasoning is when some results follow necessarily from certain claims [Aristotle]
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A thing has a feature necessarily if its denial brings a contradiction [Aristotle]
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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility
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The actual must be possible, because it occurred [Aristotle]
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Some logical possibility concerns single propositions, but there is also compatibility between propositions [Peirce]
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Anything which is possible either exists or will come into existence [Aristotle]
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Possibility is when the necessity of the contrary is false [Aristotle]
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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 4. Potentiality
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A 'potentiality' is a principle of change or process in a thing [Aristotle]
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Things are destroyed not by their powers, but by their lack of them [Aristotle]
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Matter is potentiality [Aristotle, by Politis]
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Potentialities are always for action, but are conditional on circumstances [Aristotle]
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We recognise potentiality from actuality [Aristotle]
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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 7. Chance
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Intrinsic cause is prior to coincidence, so nature and intelligence are primary causes, chance secondary [Aristotle]
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Objective chance is the property of a distribution [Peirce]
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Maybe there is no pure chance; a man's choices cause his chance meetings [Aristotle]
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Is chance just unknown laws? But the laws operate the same, whatever chance occurs [Peirce]
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Chance is a coincidental cause among events involving purpose and choice [Aristotle]
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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals
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Truth-functional conditionals have a simple falsification, when A is true and B is false [Peirce]
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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / e. Supposition conditionals
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In ordinary language a conditional statement assumes that the antecedent is true [Peirce]
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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 6. Necessity from Essence
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The two right angles of a triangle necessitate that a quadrilateral has four [Aristotle]
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Some things have external causes of their necessity; others (the simple) generate necessities [Aristotle]
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Aristotle's says necessary truths are distinct and derive from essential truths [Aristotle, by Koslicki]
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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / d. Possible worlds actualism
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The possible can only be general, and the force of actuality is needed to produce a particular [Peirce]
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