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Single Idea 2796

[filed under theme 10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 3. A Posteriori Necessary ]

Full Idea

Quine argues that no necessity can be known other than empirically.

Gist of Idea

For Quine the only way to know a necessity is empirically

Source

report of Willard Quine (works [1961]) by Jonathan Dancy - Intro to Contemporary Epistemology 14.6

Book Ref

Dancy,Jonathan: 'Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology' [Blackwell 1985], p.222