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Ideas for 'works', 'Modern Philosophy:introduction and survey' and 'Counterfactuals'

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

3888	Hume assumes that necessity can only be de dicto, not de re [Scruton]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals

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Lewis says indicative conditionals are truth-functional [Lewis, by Jackson]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 9. Counterfactuals

8434	In good counterfactuals the consequent holds in world like ours except that the antecedent is true [Lewis, by Horwich]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / c. Possible but inconceivable

3903	The conceivable can't be a test of the possible, if there are things which are possible but inconceivable [Scruton]