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All the ideas for 'Truth (frags)', 'Law, Pragmatism and Democracy' and 'The Varieties of Necessity'

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4 ideas

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

9216	Each area of enquiry, and its source, has its own distinctive type of necessity [Fine,K]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony

9214	Unsupported testimony may still be believable [Fine,K]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 5. Democracy / a. Nature of democracy

21131

Democracy is competition for support of the people, guided by self-interest on all sides [Posner]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / a. Scientific essentialism

9215	Causation is easier to disrupt than logic, so metaphysics is part of nature, not vice versa [Fine,K]