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Ideas for 'Metaphysics', 'Of Organum or Ars Magna of Thinking' and 'The Conscious Mind'

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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity
12611 Necessity makes alternatives impossible [Aristotle]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 5. Metaphysical Necessity
16424 Strong metaphysical necessity allows fewer possible worlds than logical necessity [Chalmers]
16425 Metaphysical necessity is a bizarre, brute and inexplicable constraint on possibilities [Chalmers]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity
17852 A thing has a feature necessarily if its denial brings a contradiction [Aristotle]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 10. Impossibility
16426 How can we know the metaphysical impossibilities; the a posteriori only concerns this world [Chalmers]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility
15769 Anything which is possible either exists or will come into existence [Aristotle]
15779 Possibility is when the necessity of the contrary is false [Aristotle]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 4. Potentiality
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]
14544 Potentialities are always for action, but are conditional on circumstances [Aristotle]
15774 We recognise potentiality from actuality [Aristotle]
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]
10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 1. A Priori Necessary
13956 Kripke is often taken to be challenging a priori insights into necessity [Chalmers]
10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / a. Conceivable as possible
13963 Maybe logical possibility does imply conceivability - by an ideal mind [Chalmers]
10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / b. Conceivable but impossible
2407 One can wrongly imagine two things being non-identical even though they are the same (morning/evening star) [Chalmers]