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All the ideas for 'Morals and Modals', 'Of Liberty and Necessity' and 'Fifteen Sermons'

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4 ideas

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 5. Contingency

6215	'Contingent' means that the cause is unperceived, not that there is no cause [Hobbes]

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

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If we are told the source of necessity, this seems to be a regress if the source is not already necessary [Blackburn]

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If something underlies a necessity, is that underlying thing necessary or contingent? [Blackburn, by Hale/Hoffmann,A]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism

8066	Butler exalts conscience, but it may be horribly misleading [Anscombe on Butler]