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Ideas for 'After Finitude', 'Writing the Book of the World' and 'Postscripts on supervenience'

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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 5. Contingency
19660 Possible non-being which must be realised is 'precariousness'; absolute contingency might never not-be [Meillassoux]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 7. Chance
19671 The idea of chance relies on unalterable physical laws [Meillassoux]
10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity
15030 Humeans say that we decide what is necessary [Sider]
15031 Modal terms in English are entirely contextual, with no modality outside the language [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]
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
15025 The world does not contain necessity and possibility - merely how things are [Sider]