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Single Idea 15214
[filed under theme 10. Modality / A. Necessity / 7. Natural Necessity
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Full Idea
Natural necessity is neither a mere reflection of logical necessity nor a roundabout way of referring to empirical contingency.
Gist of Idea
Natural necessity is not logical necessity or empirical contingency in disguise
Source
Harré,R./Madden,E.H. (Causal Powers [1975], 1.I.B)
Book Ref
Harré,R/Madden,E.H.: 'Causal Powers: A Theory of Natural Necessity' [Blackwell 1975], p.6
A Reaction
They offer a strong defence of natural necessity, which is basic to their scientific essentialism. The key point is that they, unlike some others, are not defending metaphysical necessity about nature, but finding a different type of necessity. Good.
The
18 ideas
with the same theme
[necessary facts about the physical world]:
5047
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The world is physically necessary, as its contrary would imply imperfection or moral absurdity
[Leibniz]
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5594
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Natural necessity is the unconditioned necessity of appearances
[Kant]
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15884
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Laws of nature remain the same through any conditions, if the underlying mechanisms are unchanged
[Harré]
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4797
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Instead of being regularities, maybe natural laws are the weak a posteriori necessities of Kripke
[Kripke, by Psillos]
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17037
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Physical necessity may be necessity in the highest degree
[Kripke]
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17058
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What many people consider merely physically necessary I consider completely necessary
[Kripke]
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4970
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What is often held to be mere physical necessity is actually metaphysical necessity
[Kripke]
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15214
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Natural necessity is not logical necessity or empirical contingency in disguise
[Harré/Madden]
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15221
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The relation between what a thing is and what it can do or undergo relate by natural necessity
[Harré/Madden]
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15224
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A necessity corresponds to the nature of the actual
[Harré/Madden]
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15232
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Natural necessity is when powerful particulars must produce certain results in a situation
[Harré/Madden]
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15288
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People doubt science because if it isn't logically necessary it seems to be absolutely contingent
[Harré/Madden]
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15289
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Property or event relations are naturally necessary if generated by essential mechanisms
[Harré/Madden]
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11978
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Causal necessities hold in all worlds compatible with the laws of nature
[Lewis]
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2730
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Because 'gold is malleable' is necessary does not mean that it is analytic
[Audi,R]
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14676
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Nomological necessity is expressed with intransitive relations in modal semantics
[Salmon,N]
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11085
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Nomological necessity is truth in all logically possible worlds with our laws
[Hanna]
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14552
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Relations are naturally necessary when they are generated by the essential mechanisms of the world
[Mumford/Anjum]
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