11043 | It is not possible for fire to be cold or snow black [Aristotle] |
15966 | Boyle and Locke believed corpuscular structures necessitate their powers of interaction [Locke, by Alexander,P] |
15984 | The corpuscular hypothesis is the best explanation of the necessary connection and co-existence of powers [Locke] |
15950 | We will only understand substance when we know the necessary connections between powers and qualities [Locke] |
19669 | For Kant the laws must be necessary, because contingency would destroy representation [Kant, by Meillassoux] |
19672 | Kant fails to prove the necessity of laws, because his reasoning about chance is over-ambitious [Meillassoux on Kant] |
8933 | Science confronts the inner necessities of objects [Hegel] |
5818 | If water is H2O in the actual world, there is no possible world where it isn't H2O [Putnam] |
5464 | For essentialists, laws of nature are metaphysically necessary, being based on essences of natural kinds [Ellis] |
13603 | A primary aim of science is to show the limits of the possible [Ellis] |
8560 | If causal laws describe causal potentialities, the same laws govern properties in all possible worlds [Shoemaker] |
15763 | If properties are causal, then causal necessity is a species of logical necessity [Shoemaker] |
8561 | If a world has different causal laws, it must have different properties [Shoemaker] |
9387 | The scientific discovery (if correct) that gold has atomic number 79 is a necessary truth [Kripke] |
17054 | Scientific discoveries about gold are necessary truths [Kripke] |
17057 | Once we've found that heat is molecular motion, then that's what it is, in all possible worlds [Kripke] |
15223 | Necessary effects will follow from some general theory specifying powers and structure of a world [Harré/Madden] |
15241 | Humeans say there is no necessity in causation, because denying an effect is never self-contradictory [Harré/Madden] |
11957 | It is contingent which kinds and powers exist in the world [Molnar] |
14345 | The necessity of an electron being an electron is conceptual, and won't ground necessary laws [Mumford] |
9506 | Salt necessarily dissolves in water, because of the law which makes the existence of salt possible [Bird] |
19667 | If the laws of nature are contingent, shouldn't we already have noticed it? [Meillassoux] |
19670 | Why are contingent laws of nature stable? [Meillassoux] |
14548 | There may be necessitation in the world, but causation does not supply it [Mumford/Anjum] |
16977 | If essence is modal and laws are necessary, essentialist knowledge is found by scientists [Tahko] |
19038 | Dispositional essentialism allows laws to be different, but only if the supporting properties differ [Vetter] |