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    It is not the case that Philo's definitions of modality introduce mere conceptual modalities, not temporally indexed ones

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    • 1.Philo's definition of possibility as 'capable of being true by the proposition's own nature' implicitly invokes what holds across times, since natural capacity is assessed relative to circumstances that obtain or could obtain temporally.
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    • 2.Diodorus Cronus, Philo's contemporary interlocutor, explicitly framed his rival modal definitions in terms of what is or will be the case, and Philo's definitions are historically preserved as direct responses to that temporal framework.
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    • 3.A definition formulated as a direct dialectical contrast to temporally-indexed modality necessarily inherits temporal reference as part of its semantic content, even if it negates rather than affirms temporal indexing.
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    • 1.The ancient sources recording Philo's definitions, primarily Boethius and the commentators on Aristotle, embed those definitions within discussions of the Master Argument where temporal passage is the central explanatory variable.
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    • 2.When 'own nature' (oikeia phusis) is used in Stoic and Megarian contexts, it refers to the constitutive properties of a thing as they manifest through time, not to atemporal essences abstracted from temporal reality.
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    • 1.Philo defines possibility as what is capable of being true by the proposition's own nature
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    • 2.Philo defines necessity as what is true and not capable of being false by its own nature
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    • 3.These definitions rely on intrinsic nature rather than temporal facts about what is or will be the case
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