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Single Idea 16490
[filed under theme 10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity
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Full Idea
The impossibility of seeing two colours simultaneously in a given direction feels like a logical impossibility.
Gist of Idea
Some facts about experience feel like logical necessities
Source
Bertrand Russell (Human Knowledge: its scope and limits [1948], 9)
Book Ref
Russell,Bertrand: 'Human Knowledge' [Routledge 2009], p.113
A Reaction
I presume all necessities feel equally necessary. If we distinguish necessities by what gives rise to them (a view I favour) then how strong they 'feel' will be irrelevant. We can see why Russell is puzzled by the phenomenon, though.
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40 ideas
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[necessity because of logic or definitions]:
17852
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A thing has a feature necessarily if its denial brings a contradiction
[Aristotle]
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12259
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Reasoning is when some results follow necessarily from certain claims
[Aristotle]
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16490
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Some facts about experience feel like logical necessities
[Russell]
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9001
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Frege moved Kant's question about a priori synthetic to 'how is logical certainty possible?'
[Quine]
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12188
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Contrary to some claims, Quine does not deny logical necessity
[Quine, by McFetridge]
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15230
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Logical necessity is grounded in the logical form of a statement
[Harré/Madden]
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13820
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The idea that anything which can be proved is necessary has a problem with empty names
[Bostock]
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15083
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The fundamental case of logical necessity is the valid conclusion of an inference
[McFetridge, by Hale]
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15084
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In the McFetridge view, logical necessity means a consequent must be true if the antecedent is
[McFetridge, by Hale]
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12181
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Traditionally, logical necessity is the strongest, and entails any other necessities
[McFetridge]
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12184
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Logical necessity overrules all other necessities
[McFetridge]
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12180
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Logical necessity requires that a valid argument be necessary
[McFetridge]
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12183
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It is only logical necessity if there is absolutely no sense in which it could be false
[McFetridge]
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12192
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The mark of logical necessity is deduction from any suppositions whatever
[McFetridge]
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12189
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Logical necessity involves a decision about usage, and is non-realist and non-cognitive
[Wright,C, by McFetridge]
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14681
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Logical necessity is free of constraints, and may accommodate all of S5 logic
[Salmon,N]
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13394
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Entailment does not result from mutual necessity; mutual necessity ensures entailment
[Jubien]
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12185
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Logical necessity is epistemic necessity, which is the old notion of a priori
[Edgington, by McFetridge]
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10258
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Logical modalities may be acceptable, because they are reducible to satisfaction in models
[Shapiro]
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15417
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Logical necessity has two sides - validity and demonstrability - which coincide in classical logic
[Burgess]
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15419
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General consensus is S5 for logical modality of validity, and S4 for proof
[Burgess]
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12206
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Broadly logical necessity (i.e. not necessarily formal logical necessity) is an epistemic notion
[Edgington]
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12208
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An argument is only valid if it is epistemically (a priori) necessary
[Edgington]
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8260
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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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16973
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Explain logical necessity by logical consequence, or the other way around?
[Correia]
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15085
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'Broadly' logical necessities are derived (in a structure) entirely from the concepts
[Hale]
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15088
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Logical necessities are true in virtue of the nature of all logical concepts
[Hale]
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13709
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Logical truths must be necessary if anything is
[Sider]
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19285
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Logical necessity is something which is true, no matter what else is the case
[Hale]
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19287
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Maybe each type of logic has its own necessity, gradually becoming broader
[Hale]
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18848
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Something may be necessary because of logic, but is that therefore a special sort of necessity?
[Rosen]
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9481
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Logical necessitation is not a kind of necessity; George Orwell not being Eric Blair is not a real possibility
[Bird]
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18478
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Wittgenstein's plan to show there is only logical necessity failed, because of colours
[MacBride]
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11084
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Logical necessity is truth in all logically possible worlds, because of laws and concepts
[Hanna]
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16042
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The metaphysically and logically possible worlds are the same, so they are the same strength
[Bennett,K]
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22150
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Logical possibility needs the concepts of the proposition to be adequate
[Boulter]
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18825
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S5 is the logic of logical necessity
[Rumfitt]
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12193
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Logical necessity is when 'necessarily A' implies 'not-A is contradictory'
[Rumfitt]
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12200
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A logically necessary statement need not be a priori, as it could be unknowable
[Rumfitt]
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12202
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Narrow non-modal logical necessity may be metaphysical, but real logical necessity is not
[Rumfitt]
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