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'Metaphysics', 'Nature's Metaphysics' and 'Later Letters to Dedekind'
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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity
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Necessity makes alternatives impossible [Aristotle]
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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 3. Types of Necessity
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If the laws necessarily imply p, that doesn't give a new 'nomological' necessity [Bird]
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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity
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A thing has a feature necessarily if its denial brings a contradiction [Aristotle]
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Logical necessitation is not a kind of necessity; George Orwell not being Eric Blair is not a real possibility [Bird]
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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility
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Anything which is possible either exists or will come into existence [Aristotle]
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Possibility is when the necessity of the contrary is false [Aristotle]
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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 4. Potentiality
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A 'potentiality' is a principle of change or process in a thing [Aristotle]
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Potentialities are always for action, but are conditional on circumstances [Aristotle]
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We recognise potentiality from actuality [Aristotle]
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Things are destroyed not by their powers, but by their lack of them [Aristotle]
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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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10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / a. Conceivable as possible
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Empiricist saw imaginability and possibility as close, but now they seem remote [Bird]
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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / d. Haecceitism
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Haecceitism says identity is independent of qualities and without essence [Bird]
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