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Ideas for 'Writing the Book of the World', 'Causal Powers' and 'The Concept of Law'

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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]
15233 If natural necessity is used to include or exclude some predicate, the predicate is conceptually necessary [Harré/Madden]
15242 Having a child is contingent for a 'man', necessary for a 'father'; the latter reflects a necessity of nature [Harré/Madden]
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
15216 Is conceptual necessity just conventional, or does it mirror something about nature? [Harré/Madden]
15235 There is a conceptual necessity when properties become a standard part of a nominal essence [Harré/Madden]
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]