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Ideas for 'Analyzing Modality', 'Writing the Book of the World' and 'Walking the Tightrope of Reason'

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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity
15031 Modal terms in English are entirely contextual, with no modality outside the language [Sider]
15030 Humeans say that we decide what is necessary [Sider]
10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 3. Necessity by Convention
15027 If truths are necessary 'by convention', that seems to make them contingent [Sider]
6582 Conventions can only work if they are based on something non-conventional [Fogelin]
15028 Conventionalism doesn't seem to apply to examples of the necessary a posteriori [Sider]
10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 4. Necessity from Concepts
15033 Humeans says mathematics and logic are necessary because that is how our concept of necessity works [Sider]
10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 5. Modality from Actuality
11118 Modal propositions transcend the concrete, but not the actual [Jubien]
11108 Your properties, not some other world, decide your possibilities [Jubien]
11111 Modal truths are facts about parts of this world, not about remote maximal entities [Jubien]
15025 The world does not contain necessity and possibility - merely how things are [Sider]