Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Thrasymachus, Halbach,V/Leigh,G.E. and Saul A. Kripke
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10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 1. A Priori Necessary
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Kripke separates necessary and a priori, proposing necessary a posteriori and contingent a priori examples [Kripke, by O'Grady]
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A priori = Necessary because we imagine all worlds, and we know without looking at actuality? [Kripke]
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10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 2. A Priori Contingent
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The meter is defined necessarily, but the stick being one meter long is contingent a priori [Kripke]
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The very act of designating of an object with properties gives knowledge of a contingent truth [Kripke]
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10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 3. A Posteriori Necessary
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Kripke has demonstrated that some necessary truths are only knowable a posteriori [Kripke, by Chalmers]
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"'Hesperus' is 'Phosphorus'" is necessarily true, if it is true, but not known a priori [Kripke]
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Theoretical identities are between rigid designators, and so are necessary a posteriori [Kripke]
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It is necessary that this table is not made of ice, but we don't know it a priori [Kripke]
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10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / a. Conceivable as possible
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Kripke's essentialist necessary a posteriori opened the gap between conceivable and really possible [Soames on Kripke]
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Kripke gets to the necessary a posteriori by only allowing conceivability when combined with actuality [Kripke, by Soames]
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