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All the ideas for 'Presentism and Properties', 'The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge' and 'The Source of Necessity'

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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]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

8824	No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

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The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism

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I am a presentist, and all language and common sense supports my view [Bigelow]