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All the ideas for 'Lectures on Ethics', 'Two Kinds of Possibility' and 'fragments/reports'

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6 ideas

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 1. Types of Modality

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There are two families of modal notions, metaphysical and epistemic, of equal strength [Edgington]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 5. Metaphysical Necessity

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Metaphysical possibility is discovered empirically, and is contrained by nature [Edgington]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity

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Broadly logical necessity (i.e. not necessarily formal logical necessity) is an epistemic notion [Edgington]

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An argument is only valid if it is epistemically (a priori) necessary [Edgington]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / a. Pro-internalism

604	Knowledge is mind and knowing 'cohabiting' [Lycophron, by Aristotle]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide

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The maxim for suicide is committed to the value of life, and is thus contradictory [Kant]