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Ideas for 'Metaphysics', 'The Epistemology of Essentialist Claims' and 'A Powers Theory of Modality'

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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

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Possible worlds are just not suitable truthmakers for modality [Jacobs]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 5. Modality from Actuality

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All modality is in the properties and relations of the actual world [Jacobs]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 6. Necessity from Essence

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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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We can base counterfactuals on powers, not possible worlds, and hence define necessity [Jacobs]