Combining Philosophers

Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Michael Hallett and Aristotle

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1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science

76	The object of scientific knowledge is what is necessary [Aristotle]
	Full Idea: The object of scientific knowledge is what is necessary.
	From: Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1139b24)
	A reaction: This is diametrically opposed to the Humean view, which takes the nature of each thing, and the laws which guide it, to be contingent. Kripke has pointed us towards necessities in nature.