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    Necessity is not a matter of happenstance — Carmelics
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    Necessity is not a matter of happenstance

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    4 says of necessities what 5 says about possibilities: necessity is not a matter of happenstance; the necessary truths of our world are necessary in every world. B says that anything that is in fact the case had to have been possible; the truths in our world are, at the least, possibilities in every other world.

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