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All the ideas for 'On the Soul (frags)', 'The Source of Necessity' and 'In Defence of Convention T'

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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity
12432 Explanation of necessity must rest on something necessary or something contingent [Hale]
12434 Why is this necessary, and what is necessity in general; why is this necessary truth true, and why necessary? [Hale]
12435 The explanation of a necessity can be by a truth (which may only happen to be a necessary truth) [Hale]
10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 3. Necessity by Convention
12433 If necessity rests on linguistic conventions, those are contingent, so there is no necessity [Hale]
10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 4. Necessity from Concepts
12436 Concept-identities explain how we know necessities, not why they are necessary [Hale]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 3. Eliminativism
5997 Dicaearchus said soul does not exist, but is just a configuration of the body [Dicaearchus, by Fortenbaugh]
19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 5. Fregean Semantics
7331 A theory of meaning comes down to translating sentences into Fregean symbolic logic [Davidson, by Macey]