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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Essential Attribution' and 'The Source of Necessity'

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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]

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]

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]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / a. Possible worlds

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The use of possible worlds is to sort properties (not to individuate objects) [Marcus (Barcan)]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / b. Rigid designation

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In possible worlds, names are just neutral unvarying pegs for truths and predicates [Marcus (Barcan)]