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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 5. Contingency
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Possible non-being which must be realised is 'precariousness'; absolute contingency might never not-be [Meillassoux]
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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 7. Chance
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The idea of chance relies on unalterable physical laws [Meillassoux]
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10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 1. A Priori Necessary
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Modal thinking isn't a special intuition; it is part of ordinary counterfactual thinking [Williamson]
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10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / a. Conceivable as possible
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Williamson can't base metaphysical necessity on the psychology of causal counterfactuals [Lowe on Williamson]
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We scorn imagination as a test of possibility, forgetting its role in counterfactuals [Williamson]
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