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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On the Source of Necessity' and 'fragments/reports'

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8 ideas

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 3. Modal Logic Systems / g. System S4

15102

S4 says there must be some necessary truths (the actual ones, of which there is at least one) [Cameron]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being

12270

Being is one [Melissus, by Aristotle]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 6. Constitution of an Object

6019	If someone squashed a horse to make a dog, something new would now exist [Mnesarchus]

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

15103

Blackburn fails to show that the necessary cannot be grounded in the contingent [Cameron]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

3059	There is no real motion, only the appearance of it [Melissus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 1. Void

5100	The void is not required for change, because a plenum can alter in quality [Aristotle on Melissus]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / f. Eternalism

15104

The 'moving spotlight' theory makes one time privileged, while all times are on a par ontologically [Cameron]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 2. Eternal Universe

456	Nothing could come out of nothing [Melissus]