| 4822 | Divine nature makes all existence and operations necessary, and nothing is contingent [Spinoza] |
| 6181 | Necessity cannot be extracted from an empirical proposition [Kant] |
| 4192 | All necessity arises from causation, which is conditioned; there is no absolute or unconditioned necessity [Schopenhauer] |
| 4743 | The truth-maker for a truth must necessitate that truth [Armstrong] |
| 12687 | Metaphysical necessities are those depending on the essential nature of things [Ellis] |
| 16984 | I don't think possible worlds reductively reveal the natures of modal operators etc. [Kripke] |
| 3867 | De re necessity arises from the way the world is [Newton-Smith] |
| 14629 | If we are told the source of necessity, this seems to be a regress if the source is not already necessary [Blackburn] |
| 14529 | If something underlies a necessity, is that underlying thing necessary or contingent? [Blackburn, by Hale/Hoffmann,A] |
| 12187 | Objectual modal realists believe in possible worlds; non-objectual ones rest it on the actual world [McFetridge] |
| 13374 | To analyse modality, we must give accounts of objects, properties and relations [Jubien] |
| 13391 | Modality concerns relations among platonic properties [Jubien] |
| 11166 | The subject of a proposition need not be the source of its necessity [Fine,K] |
| 17273 | Each basic modality has its 'own' explanatory relation [Fine,K] |
| 17289 | Every necessary truth is grounded in the nature of something [Fine,K] |
| 14530 | The role of semantic necessity in semantics is like metaphysical necessity in metaphysics [Fine,K, by Hale/Hoffmann,A] |
| 9216 | Each area of enquiry, and its source, has its own distinctive type of necessity [Fine,K] |
| 14531 | Rather than define counterfactuals using necessity, maybe necessity is a special case of counterfactuals [Williamson, by Hale/Hoffmann,A] |
| 19282 | It seems that we cannot show that modal facts depend on non-modal facts [Hale] |
| 12432 | Explanation of necessity must rest on something necessary or something contingent [Hale] |
| 12434 | Why is this necessary, and what is necessity in general; why is this necessary truth true, and why necessary? [Hale] |
| 12435 | The explanation of a necessity can be by a truth (which may only happen to be a necessary truth) [Hale] |
| 15030 | Humeans say that we decide what is necessary [Sider] |
| 15031 | Modal terms in English are entirely contextual, with no modality outside the language [Sider] |
| 14101 | Are necessary truths rooted in essences, or also in basic grounding laws? [Rosen] |
| 15103 | Blackburn fails to show that the necessary cannot be grounded in the contingent [Cameron] |
| 14372 | Possible worlds are just not suitable truthmakers for modality [Jacobs] |
| 14549 | Maybe truths are necessitated by the facts which are their truthmakers [Mumford/Anjum] |