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9442 | The only necessity is logical necessity [Wittgenstein] |
Full Idea: The only necessity that exists is logical necessity. | |
From: Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1921], 6.37) | |
A reaction: For Wittgenstein that will mean conventional necessity. He is taking a standard Humean view of these things. |