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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 6. Probability

7447	Probability was fully explained between 1654 and 1812 [Hacking]

7448	Probability is statistical (behaviour of chance devices) or epistemological (belief based on evidence) [Hacking]

7449	Epistemological probability based either on logical implications or coherent judgments [Hacking]

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]