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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 3. Types of Necessity
Analytic truths are divided into logically and conceptually necessary [Girle]
     Full Idea: It has been customary to see analytic truths as dividing into the logically necessary and the conceptually necessary.
     From: Rod Girle (Modal Logics and Philosophy [2000], 7.3)
     A reaction: I suspect that this neglected distinction is important in discussions of Quine's elimination of the analytic/synthetic distinction. Was Quine too influenced by what is logically necessary, which might shift with a change of axioms?