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All the ideas for 'works', 'The Source of Necessity' and 'Letters to Voetius'

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1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science

6782	Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

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Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

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Explanation of necessity must rest on something necessary or something contingent [Hale]

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Why is this necessary, and what is necessity in general; why is this necessary truth true, and why necessary? [Hale]

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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

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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

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Concept-identities explain how we know necessities, not why they are necessary [Hale]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

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Atheism is an atrocious and intolerable crime in any country [Descartes]