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All the ideas for 'Mathematics without Numbers', 'Survival and Identity, with postscript' and 'De aequopollentia causae et effectus'

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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / c. Nominalist structuralism

8698	Modal structuralism says mathematics studies possible structures, which may or may not be actualised [Hellman, by Friend]

9557	Statements of pure mathematics are elliptical for a sort of modal conditional [Hellman, by Chihara]

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Modal structuralism can only judge possibility by 'possible' models [Shapiro on Hellman]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers

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Everything has a fixed power, as required by God, and by the possibility of reasoning [Leibniz]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 4. De re / De dicto modality

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De re modal predicates are ambiguous [Lewis, by Rudder Baker]