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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 2. Necessity as Primitive

12732	Some necessary truths are brute, and others derive from final causes [Leibniz]
	Full Idea: There is a difference between truths whose necessity is brute and geometric and those truths which have their source in fitness and final causes.
	From: Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Remond de Montmort [1715], 1715.06.22/G III 645), quoted by Daniel Garber - Leibniz:Body,Substance,Monad 6
	A reaction: The second one is a necessity deriving from God's wisdom. Strictly it could have been otherwise, unlike 'geometrical' necessity, which is utterly fixed.