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Ideas for 'Metaphysics', 'Apriority and Existence' and 'Getting Causes from Powers'

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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 1. Types of Modality
14579 Dispositionality is the core modality, with possibility and necessity as its extreme cases [Mumford/Anjum]
14580 Dispositions may suggest modality to us - as what might not have been, and what could have been [Mumford/Anjum]
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 / A. Necessity / 7. Natural Necessity
14552 Relations are naturally necessary when they are generated by the essential mechanisms of the world [Mumford/Anjum]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility
15769 Anything which is possible either exists or will come into existence [Aristotle]
14578 Possibility might be non-contradiction, or recombinations of the actual, or truth in possible worlds [Mumford/Anjum]
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]
14544 Potentialities are always for action, but are conditional on circumstances [Aristotle]
15774 We recognise potentiality from actuality [Aristotle]
15778 Things are destroyed not by their powers, but by their lack of them [Aristotle]
10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity
14549 Maybe truths are necessitated by the facts which are their truthmakers [Mumford/Anjum]
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]