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Single Idea 15224
[filed under theme 10. Modality / A. Necessity / 7. Natural Necessity
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Full Idea
There is a necessity corresponding to the nature of the actual.
Gist of Idea
A necessity corresponds to the nature of the actual
Source
Harré,R./Madden,E.H. (Causal Powers [1975], 1.III.C)
Book Ref
Harré,R/Madden,E.H.: 'Causal Powers: A Theory of Natural Necessity' [Blackwell 1975], p.16
A Reaction
A nice slogan for the assertion of a genuine and distinct natural necessity. Hence every possible world will have its own distinctive natural necessity. If the actual contains the possible, then there are possible new natural necessities in the actual!
The
18 ideas
with the same theme
[necessary facts about the physical world]:
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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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