Engagement and metaphysical dissatisfaction [electronic resource] : modality and value / Barry Stroud. Stroud, Barry. Metaphysics. Causation. Necessity (Philosophy) Value. BD111 110 22 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011). We all have beliefs to the effect that if a certain thing were to happen a certain other thing would happen. We also believe that some things simply must be so, with no possibility of having been otherwise. Barry Stroud argues that some beliefs of each of these kinds are indispensable to our having any conception of a world at all. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. 2011. 2011 Text 1 online resource. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199764969.001.0001 eng