3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
12978 | A perfect idea of an object shows that the object is possible [Leibniz] |
5483 | Essentialists deny possible worlds, and say possibilities are what is compatible with the actual world [Ellis] |
16436 | Modal concepts are central to the actual world, and shouldn't need extravagant metaphysics [Stalnaker] |
17572 | Actuality proves possibility, but that doesn't explain how it is possible [Inwagen] |
12186 | Modal realists hold that necessities and possibilities are part of the totality of facts [McFetridge] |
6080 | Modality is not objects or properties, but the type of binding of objects to properties [McGinn] |
14689 | Necessity and possibility are not just necessity and possibility according to the actual world [Salmon,N] |
11108 | Your properties, not some other world, decide your possibilities [Jubien] |
11111 | Modal truths are facts about parts of this world, not about remote maximal entities [Jubien] |
11118 | Modal propositions transcend the concrete, but not the actual [Jubien] |
10745 | Science is modally committed, to disposition, causation and law [Oliver] |
15025 | The world does not contain necessity and possibility - merely how things are [Sider] |
12468 | A state of affairs is only possible if there has been an actual substance to initiate it [Pruss] |
12466 | All modality is in the properties and relations of the actual world [Jacobs] |