Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Anaximander, Willard Quine and Alan Sidelle
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10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 3. A Posteriori Necessary
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For Quine the only way to know a necessity is empirically [Quine, by Dancy,J]
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Quine's indispensability argument said arguments for abstracta were a posteriori [Quine, by Yablo]
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The necessary a posteriori is statements either of identity or of essence [Sidelle]
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10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / a. Conceivable as possible
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Empiricism explores necessities and concept-limits by imagining negations of truths [Sidelle]
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Contradictoriness limits what is possible and what is imaginable [Sidelle]
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