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All the ideas for 'poems', 'Two Kinds of Possibility' and 'Consistency and realism (with 1972 note)'

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6 ideas

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 1. Types of Modality

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There are two families of modal notions, metaphysical and epistemic, of equal strength [Edgington]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 5. Metaphysical Necessity

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Metaphysical possibility is discovered empirically, and is contrained by nature [Edgington]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity

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Broadly logical necessity (i.e. not necessarily formal logical necessity) is an epistemic notion [Edgington]

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An argument is only valid if it is epistemically (a priori) necessary [Edgington]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

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We tolerate inconsistency in ethics but not in other beliefs (which reflect an independent order) [Williams,B, by Foot]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]