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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 1. Types of Modality
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Dispositionality is the core modality, with possibility and necessity as its extreme cases [Mumford/Anjum]
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Dispositions may suggest modality to us - as what might not have been, and what could have been [Mumford/Anjum]
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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 7. Natural Necessity
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Relations are naturally necessary when they are generated by the essential mechanisms of the world [Mumford/Anjum]
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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility
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Possibility might be non-contradiction, or recombinations of the actual, or truth in possible worlds [Mumford/Anjum]
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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 5. Contingency
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Necessary truths can be analysed into original truths; contingent truths are infinitely analysable [Leibniz]
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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity
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Maybe truths are necessitated by the facts which are their truthmakers [Mumford/Anjum]
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10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 2. A Priori Contingent
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Only God sees contingent truths a priori [Leibniz]
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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / e. Possible Objects
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If non-existents are possible, their existence would replace what now exists, which cannot therefore be necessary [Leibniz]
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