Full Idea
We support the views of metaphysical modality on which metaphysical necessity is an even more deeply empirical matter than Kripke has argued.
Gist of Idea
Metaphysical necessity is even more deeply empirical than Kripke has argued
Source
Barbara Vetter (Essence and Potentiality [2010], p.2)
A Reaction
[co-author E. Viebahn] This seems to pinpoint the spirit of scientific essentialism. She cites Bird and Shoemaker. If it is empirical, doesn't that make it a matter of epistemology, and hence further from absolute necessity?