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For instance, “If it is necessary that water is H 2O, then this strictly implies that the fact that tomorrow is Taco Tuesday strictly implies that water is H 2O.”  That weird sort of modal statement hardly captures the kind of necessary connections in nature that Aristotelians posit when they affirm the reality of causal powers. Now, David Lewis famously held that every possible world is as real as the actual world.  And as Anjum and Mumford point out, this provides a way to read even st...

Did you hear me? I’m at your house. Clean your fucking attic!!! — Jack Froese Jack Froese had been a close friend of Hart’s since their teens. A few months earlier Froese and Hart had been up in Hart’s attic at his home in Dunmore, Pennsylvania. Jack had teased him then about how messy it was; now, it seemed, he was doing it again. Except Jack was dead. That June, Froese had died suddenly of a heart arrhythmia, at the obscenely young age of 32. Months later, he started emailing people. ...