Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, Bob Hale and Jennifer Fisher
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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity
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Explanation of necessity must rest on something necessary or something contingent [Hale]
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Why is this necessary, and what is necessity in general; why is this necessary truth true, and why necessary? [Hale]
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The explanation of a necessity can be by a truth (which may only happen to be a necessary truth) [Hale]
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It seems that we cannot show that modal facts depend on non-modal facts [Hale]
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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 3. Necessity by Convention
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If necessity rests on linguistic conventions, those are contingent, so there is no necessity [Hale]
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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 4. Necessity from Concepts
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Concept-identities explain how we know necessities, not why they are necessary [Hale]
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Conceptual necessities are made true by all concepts [Hale]
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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 6. Necessity from Essence
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The big challenge for essentialist views of modality is things having necessary existence [Hale]
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Essentialism doesn't explain necessity reductively; it explains all necessities in terms of a few basic natures [Hale]
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If necessity derives from essences, how do we explain the necessary existence of essences? [Hale]
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