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Ideas for 'Metaphysics', 'works' and 'Logic and Conversation'

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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity
12611 Necessity makes alternatives impossible [Aristotle]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity
17852 A thing has a feature necessarily if its denial brings a contradiction [Aristotle]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility
15779 Possibility is when the necessity of the contrary is false [Aristotle]
15769 Anything which is possible either exists or will come into existence [Aristotle]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 4. Potentiality
14544 Potentialities are always for action, but are conditional on circumstances [Aristotle]
15774 We recognise potentiality from actuality [Aristotle]
15777 A 'potentiality' is a principle of change or process in a thing [Aristotle]
15778 Things are destroyed not by their powers, but by their lack of them [Aristotle]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals
13856 Conditionals are truth-functional, but we must take care with misleading ones [Grice, by Edgington]
8948 The odd truth table for material conditionals is explained by conversational conventions [Grice, by Fisher]
13767 Conditionals might remain truth-functional, despite inappropriate conversational remarks [Edgington on Grice]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / f. Pragmatics of conditionals
14277 A person can be justified in believing a proposition, though it is unreasonable to actually say it [Grice, by Edgington]
10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 6. Necessity from Essence
12612 Some things have external causes of their necessity; others (the simple) generate necessities [Aristotle]
15108 Aristotle's says necessary truths are distinct and derive from essential truths [Aristotle, by Koslicki]