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Ideas for 'Natural Kinds', 'Three Grades of Modal Involvement' and 'Naming and Necessity lectures'

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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity

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Necessity can attach to statement-names, to statements, and to open sentences [Quine]

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Kripke says his necessary a posteriori examples are known a priori to be necessary [Kripke, by Mackie,P]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 7. Natural Necessity

4797	Instead of being regularities, maybe natural laws are the weak a posteriori necessities of Kripke [Kripke, by Psillos]

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Physical necessity may be necessity in the highest degree [Kripke]

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

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Necessity is in the way in which we say things, and not things themselves [Quine]