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Ideas for 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics', 'Leibniz' and 'Reason, Truth and History'

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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

4718	If necessity is always relative to a description in a language, then there is only 'de dicto' necessity [Putnam, by O'Grady]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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Early modern possibility is what occurs sometime; for Leibniz, it is what is not contradictory [Arthur,R]