Are There Grounds of Logical Necessity?
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چکیده
An examination of the grounds logical necessity is offered by taking its lead from Barry Stroud’s challenge to possibility articulating satisfactorily any such in full generality. The intelligibility aliens also considered, and different conceptions aliens, some more radical their treatment issue than others, are examined as well. Logical beings whose thinking goes beyond limits thought, presumably with a logic our own. I argue that either something straightforward unproblematic or we cannot recognize logical. In case, there ways accommodating despite fact search for ultimately misguided.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1414-4247', '1808-1525', '1808-1711']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2023.e93657