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Ideas for 'The Science of Knowing (Wissenschaftslehre) [1st ed]', 'Scientific Essentialism' and 'Naming and Necessity preface'

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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 3. Types of Necessity

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Necessities are distinguished by their grounds, not their different modalities [Ellis]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

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I don't think possible worlds reductively reveal the natures of modal operators etc. [Kripke]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 4. Necessity from Concepts

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Necessary truths derive from basic assertion and negation [Fichte, by Pinkard]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 6. Necessity from Essence

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Individual essences necessitate that individual; natural kind essences necessitate kind membership [Ellis]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 2. A Priori Contingent

9385	The very act of designating of an object with properties gives knowledge of a contingent truth [Kripke]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / a. Possible worlds

4943	Instead of talking about possible worlds, we can always say "It is possible that.." [Kripke]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds

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Probability with dice uses possible worlds, abstractions which fictionally simplify things [Kripke]