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Ideas for 'The Philosophy of Philosophy', 'Formal and Transcendental Logic' and 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism'

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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity

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Contrary to some claims, Quine does not deny logical necessity [Quine, by McFetridge]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

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Quine's attack on the analytic-synthetic distinction undermined necessary truths [Quine, by Shoemaker]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 1. A Priori Necessary

9598	Modal thinking isn't a special intuition; it is part of ordinary counterfactual thinking [Williamson]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / a. Conceivable as possible

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Williamson can't base metaphysical necessity on the psychology of causal counterfactuals [Lowe on Williamson]

9596	We scorn imagination as a test of possibility, forgetting its role in counterfactuals [Williamson]