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Full Idea
Whatever agrees with the formal conditions of experience is possible, ...and that whose connection with the actual is determined in accordance with general conditions of experience is (exists) necessarily.
Gist of Idea
Formal experience conditions show what is possible, and general conditions what is necessary
Source
Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B266/A218)
Book Ref
Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Pure Reason', ed/tr. Guyer,P /Wood,A W [CUO 1998], p.321
A Reaction
This is the Kantian view of necessity, as more concerned with how we think than with how the world is. I think there are necessities in reality, and philosophy endeavours to discern what they are (despite the mockery of scientists).
Related Idea
Idea 18795 A concept is logically possible if non-contradictory (but may not be actually possible) [Kant]
24030 | 3+4=7 is necessary because we cannot conceive of seven without including three and four [Descartes] |
18796 | Formal experience conditions show what is possible, and general conditions what is necessary [Kant] |
22018 | Necessary truths derive from basic assertion and negation [Fichte, by Pinkard] |
15216 | Is conceptual necessity just conventional, or does it mirror something about nature? [Harré/Madden] |
15235 | There is a conceptual necessity when properties become a standard part of a nominal essence [Harré/Madden] |
16422 | The necessity of a proposition concerns reality, not our words or concepts [Stalnaker] |
16423 | Conceptual possibilities are metaphysical possibilities we can conceive of [Stalnaker] |
13810 | The source of de dicto necessity is not concepts, but the actual properties of the thing [Forbes,G] |
12028 | De re necessity is a form of conceptual necessity, just as de dicto necessity is [Forbes,G] |
11169 | Conceptual necessities rest on the nature of all concepts [Fine,K] |
15087 | Conceptual necessities are made true by all concepts [Hale] |
12436 | Concept-identities explain how we know necessities, not why they are necessary [Hale] |
15033 | Humeans says mathematics and logic are necessary because that is how our concept of necessity works [Sider] |