Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Jerry A. Fodor, Immanuel Kant and E.J. Lowe
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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 1. Types of Modality
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Modalities do not augment our concepts; they express their relation to cognition [Kant]
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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 3. Types of Necessity
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'Conceptual' necessity is narrow logical necessity, true because of concepts and logical laws [Lowe]
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Logical necessities, based on laws of logic, are a proper sub-class of metaphysical necessities [Lowe]
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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 5. Metaphysical Necessity
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Metaphysical necessity is logical necessity 'broadly construed' [Lowe, by Lynch/Glasgow]
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'Metaphysical' necessity is absolute and objective - the strongest kind of necessity [Lowe]
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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity
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Logical necessity can be 'strict' (laws), or 'narrow' (laws and definitions), or 'broad' (all logical worlds) [Lowe]
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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 7. Natural Necessity
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Natural necessity is the unconditioned necessity of appearances [Kant]
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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility
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A concept is logically possible if non-contradictory (but may not be actually possible) [Kant]
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It is impossible to reach a valid false conclusion from true premises, so reason itself depends on possibility [Lowe]
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There's statistical, logical, nomological, conceptual and metaphysical possibility [Fodor]
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Is the possible greater than the actual, and the actual greater than the necessary? [Kant]
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The analytic mark of possibility is that it does not generate a contradiction [Kant]
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The metaphysically possible is what acceptable principles and categories will permit [Lowe]
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That a concept is not self-contradictory does not make what it represents possible [Kant]
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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 2. Epistemic possibility
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'Epistemic' necessity is better called 'certainty' [Lowe]
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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity
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Necessity cannot be extracted from an empirical proposition [Kant]
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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 4. Necessity from Concepts
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Formal experience conditions show what is possible, and general conditions what is necessary [Kant]
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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 6. Necessity from Essence
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If an essence implies p, then p is an essential truth, and hence metaphysically necessary [Lowe]
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Metaphysical necessity is either an essential truth, or rests on essential truths [Lowe]
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10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 1. A Priori Necessary
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Kant thought worldly necessities are revealed by what maths needs to make sense [Kant, by Morris,M]
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Necessity is always knowable a priori, and what is known a priori is always necessary [Kant, by Schroeter]
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For Kant metaphysics must be necessary, so a priori, so can't be justified by experience [Kant, by Maudlin]
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Maths must be a priori because it is necessary, and that cannot be derived from experience [Kant]
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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / a. Possible worlds
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We might eliminate 'possible' and 'necessary' in favour of quantification over possible worlds [Lowe]
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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / e. Against possible worlds
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Does every abstract possible world exist in every possible world? [Lowe]
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We could give up possible worlds if we based necessity on essences [Lowe]
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