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'On Motion', 'How Things Might Have Been' and 'Necessary Truth'
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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity
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There is no necessity higher than natural necessity, and that is just regularity [Quine]
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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / a. Transworld identity
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Transworld identity without individual essences leads to 'bare identities' [Mackie,P]
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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / c. Counterparts
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De re modality without bare identities or individual essence needs counterparts [Mackie,P]
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Things may only be counterparts under some particular relation [Mackie,P]
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Possibilities for Caesar must be based on some phase of the real Caesar [Mackie,P]
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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / d. Haecceitism
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The theory of 'haecceitism' does not need commitment to individual haecceities [Mackie,P]
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