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Ideas for 'works', 'Counterfactuals' and 'The Ethics'

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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 5. Contingency

4299	Contingency is an illusion, resulting from our inadequate understanding [Spinoza, by Cottingham]

4824	We only call things 'contingent' in relation to the imperfection of our knowledge [Spinoza]

4839	Reason naturally regards things as necessary, and only imagination considers them contingent [Spinoza]

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

14361

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]