I give an account of the nature of absolute or metaphysical necessity. Absolute-necessarily P, I suggest, just if it is always the case that P and there never is or was a power with a chance to bring it about, bring about a power to bring it about, etc., that not P. I display both advantages and a cost of this sort of definition.
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Leftow, B. (2017). THE nature of necessity. Res Philosophica, 94(3), 359–383. https://doi.org/10.11612/resphil.1562
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