Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Melvin Fitting, Roger Scruton and James Woodward

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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

3888	Hume assumes that necessity can only be de dicto, not de re [Scruton]
	Full Idea: It was one of the assumptions of Hume's empiricism that all necessities are de dicto: i.e. they are artefacts of language.
	From: Roger Scruton (Modern Philosophy:introduction and survey [1994], 13.5)

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / c. Possible but inconceivable

3903	The conceivable can't be a test of the possible, if there are things which are possible but inconceivable [Scruton]
	Full Idea: If there are things which are possible but inconceivable, we must abandon the view, which has had a considerable following since Descartes, that the conceivable is a test of the possible.
	From: Roger Scruton (Modern Philosophy:introduction and survey [1994], 25)

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / a. Transworld identity

15377	Definite descriptions pick out different objects in different possible worlds [Fitting]
	Full Idea: Definite descriptions pick out different objects in different possible worlds quite naturally.
	From: Melvin Fitting (Intensional Logic [2007], 3.4)
	A reaction: A definite description can pick out the same object in another possible world, or a very similar one, or an object which has almost nothing in common with the others.