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'works', 'The Source of Necessity' and 'Varieties of Things'
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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity
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Explanation of necessity must rest on something necessary or something contingent [Hale]
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Why is this necessary, and what is necessity in general; why is this necessary truth true, and why necessary? [Hale]
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The explanation of a necessity can be by a truth (which may only happen to be a necessary truth) [Hale]
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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 3. Necessity by Convention
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If necessity rests on linguistic conventions, those are contingent, so there is no necessity [Hale]
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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 4. Necessity from Concepts
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Concept-identities explain how we know necessities, not why they are necessary [Hale]
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