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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 3. Necessity by Convention

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For each necessity in the world there is an arbitrary rule of language [Wittgenstein]

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]