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[catalogued under 10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity]

Full Idea

While Fine suggests defining a narrow notion of logical necessity in terms of metaphysical necessity by 'restriction' (to logical truths that can be defined in non-modal terms), this seems unpromising for broad logical necessity, which is modal.

Gist of Idea

Narrow non-modal logical necessity may be metaphysical, but real logical necessity is not

Source

Ian Rumfitt (Logical Necessity [2010], §2)

Book Reference

'Modality', ed/tr. Hale,B/Hoffman,A [OUP 2010], p.46


A Reaction

[compressed] He cites Kit Fine 2002. Rumfitt glosses the non-modal definitions as purely formal. The metaphysics lurks somewhere in the proof.