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[filed under theme 10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility ]

Full Idea

While necessity and possibility are interdefinable concepts, it is the idea of a possible world or situation which is intuitively primary.

Gist of Idea

The concept of possibility is prior to that of necessity

Source

Laurence Bonjour (In Defence of Pure Reason [1998], §1.3)

Book Ref

Bonjour,Laurence: 'In Defense of Pure Reason' [CUP 1998], p.12