Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Letters to Fardella' and 'Two Kinds of Possibility'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

21982

I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

12708

The soul is not a substance but a substantial form, the first active faculty [Leibniz]

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

12205

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

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

12207

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

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

12206

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

12208

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