Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Letters to Varignon' and 'Reference and Contingency'

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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

490	Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 5. Contingency

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'Superficial' contingency: false in some world; 'Deep' contingency: no obvious verification [Evans, by Macià/Garcia-Carpentiro]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / b. Rigid designation

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Rigid designators can be meaningful even if empty [Evans, by Mackie,P]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

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Men are related to animals, which are related to plants, then to fossils, and then to the apparently inert [Leibniz]