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'On the Question of Absolute Undecidability', 'Carnap and Logical Truth' and 'Essence and Modality'
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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity
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Frege moved Kant's question about a priori synthetic to 'how is logical certainty possible?' [Quine]
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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity
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The subject of a proposition need not be the source of its necessity [Fine,K]
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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 4. Necessity from Concepts
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Conceptual necessities rest on the nature of all concepts [Fine,K]
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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 6. Necessity from Essence
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Socrates is necessarily distinct from the Eiffel Tower, but that is not part of his essence [Fine,K]
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Metaphysical necessities are true in virtue of the nature of all objects [Fine,K]
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