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All the ideas for 'reports', 'Inventing Logical Necessity' and 'Aristotle and Descartes on Matter'

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4 ideas

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

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Logical necessity involves a decision about usage, and is non-realist and non-cognitive [Wright,C, by McFetridge]

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

3016	Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism

7320	Holism cannot give a coherent account of scientific methodology [Wright,C, by Miller,A]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter

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Prime matter is nothing when it is at rest [Leibniz]