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Ideas for 'Possibility', 'The Philosophy of Nature: new essentialism' and 'Letter to Herodotus'

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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity
13394 Entailment does not result from mutual necessity; mutual necessity ensures entailment [Jubien]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility
5479 Scientific essentialists say science should define the limits of the possible [Ellis]
10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity
13391 Modality concerns relations among platonic properties [Jubien]
13374 To analyse modality, we must give accounts of objects, properties and relations [Jubien]
10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 5. Modality from Actuality
5483 Essentialists deny possible worlds, and say possibilities are what is compatible with the actual world [Ellis]
10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 6. Necessity from Essence
5447 Metaphysical necessities are true in virtue of the essences of things [Ellis]
10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 3. A Posteriori Necessary
5476 Essentialists say natural laws are in a new category: necessary a posteriori [Ellis]
10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / a. Conceivable as possible
5478 Imagination tests what is possible for all we know, not true possibility [Ellis]
10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / c. Possible but inconceivable
14039 Above and below us will never appear to be the same, because it is inconceivable [Epicurus]
10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / c. Possible worlds realism
5482 Possible worlds realism is only needed to give truth conditions for modals and conditionals [Ellis]
10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / e. Against possible worlds
13389 The love of possible worlds is part of the dream that technical logic solves philosophical problems [Jubien]
13390 Possible worlds don't explain necessity, because they are a bunch of parallel contingencies [Jubien]