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Ideas for 'Aristotle and Descartes on Matter', 'Reason, Truth and History' and 'Meditations'

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

4718	If necessity is always relative to a description in a language, then there is only 'de dicto' necessity [Putnam, by O'Grady]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 1. A Priori Necessary

2301	We know by thought that what is done cannot be undone [Descartes]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / b. Conceivable but impossible

3642	Pythagoras' Theorem doesn't cease to be part of the essence of triangles just because we doubt it [Arnauld on Descartes]