Full Idea
Where there are analytic interrelations among our claims, distinct ontological claims may be true without rivalry, redundancy, or reduction.
Gist of Idea
Rival ontological claims can both be true, if there are analytic relationships between them
Source
Amie L. Thomasson (Ordinary Objects [2007], 10)
Book Reference
Thomasson,Amie L.: 'Ordinary Objects' [OUP 2010], p.177
A Reaction
Thus we might, I suppose, that it is analytically necessary that a lump of clay has a shape, and that a statue be made of something. Interesting.
Related Idea
Idea 14471 Analytical entailments arise from combinations of meanings and inference rules [Thomasson]