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Single Idea 13828

[catalogued under 10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity]

Full Idea

Leibniz argued that the necessary truths are just those which can be proved from identities by pure logic in a finite number of steps. ...[232] this claim is vindicated by Gentzen's sequent calculus.

Gist of Idea

Necessary truths are those provable from identities by pure logic in finite steps

Source

report of Gottfried Leibniz (works [1690]) by Ian Hacking - What is Logic? §01

Book Reference

'A Philosophical Companion to First-Order Logic', ed/tr. Hughes,R.I.G. [Hackett 1993], p.226


A Reaction

This seems an odd idea, as if there were no necessary truths other than those for which a proof could be constructed. Sounds like intuitionism.