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'On the Philosophy of Logic', 'Letters to Fardella' and 'Getting Causes from Powers'
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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 1. Types of Modality
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Dispositionality is the core modality, with possibility and necessity as its extreme cases [Mumford/Anjum]
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Dispositions may suggest modality to us - as what might not have been, and what could have been [Mumford/Anjum]
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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 7. Natural Necessity
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Relations are naturally necessary when they are generated by the essential mechanisms of the world [Mumford/Anjum]
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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility
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We can't explain 'possibility' in terms of 'possible' worlds [Fisher]
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Possibility might be non-contradiction, or recombinations of the actual, or truth in possible worlds [Mumford/Anjum]
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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals
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If all truths are implied by a falsehood, then not-p might imply both q and not-q [Fisher]
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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals
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In relevance logic, conditionals help information to flow from antecedent to consequent [Fisher]
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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity
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Maybe truths are necessitated by the facts which are their truthmakers [Mumford/Anjum]
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