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Full Idea
'Epistemic' necessity is more properly to be called 'certainty'.
Gist of Idea
'Epistemic' necessity is better called 'certainty'
Source
E.J. Lowe (What is the Source of Knowledge of Modal Truths? [2013], 1)
Book Ref
-: 'Mind' [-], p.1
A Reaction
Sounds wrong. Surely I can be totally certain of a contingent truth?
12182 | We assert epistemic possibility without commitment to logical possibility [McFetridge] |
16532 | 'Epistemic' necessity is better called 'certainty' [Lowe] |
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