Questions tagged [necessity]
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In The Leibnizian Cosmological Argument, is it allowed for necessary being to have alternatives(like different versions of that category)?
In the Argument of Contingency and Leibnizian Cosmological Argument, it is said that if something could have been diffferent then that thing can not be necessary. My question is can a simultaneosly ...
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could the set of all contingent facts be necessary?
I was thinking about the PSR. when it comes to the set of all contingent things, it seems that the set must also be contingent and could fail to exist because each member could fail to exist. but ...
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Is there really such a thing as metaphysical necessity?
I have read about the notion of necessity in a logical sense. For example, 2+2=4 seems to be logically necessary.
But I have also read about the notion of metaphysical necessity. God, for example, is ...
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Could mathematical truths have been otherwise?
Could at least some mathematical truths have been otherwise? Or are all mathematical truths necessarily true? For example, is it the case that "there exists only one complete ordered field up to ...
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Is the universe 'necessarily' contingent?
My question arises from a debate I had seen between Mohammed Hijabi and Alex O'Connell (the debate) where it seems like Hijabi was admitting to the fact that all contingent things must come from and ...
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In the Contingency argumemt it is referenced that alternative having things can not be necessary, whats the alternative in here can be considered as?
In the Argument of Contingency there is referenced that if something has alternatives, that thing can't be necessary because of it could be something different than what it is, so is this information ...
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Can a necessitarian still believe in this notion of possibility?
I am a necessitarian, meaning, I believe that the only thing that is possible is what actually happens. The reason for that is because I don't believe any possible world except this one exists. ...
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Can the law of non-contradiction exist without the law of identity?
Lately I've been reading about Quentin Meillassoux, and it seems that the only law of logic he doesn't see as contingent is the law of non-contradiction, because if the world is what it is not, then ...
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Is the surprising applicability of mathematics to the physical world a brute fact, or something crying out for a theistic explanation?
William Lane Craig proposed the following argument for God's existence:
For those who are unfamiliar with the argument for God from the applicability of mathematics to the physical world, here is a ...
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Reference request for books and papers that defend necessitarianism
I am someone who believes that only the actual is possible, that everything that is, is necessarily the case. I believe that position is a strong form of actualism, often called necessitarianism. I ...
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Does necessitarianism make the concept of law of nature vacuous?
I am someone who believes that everything is necessary, that only the actual is possible. However, I came across a somewhat disturbing implication of my view. I believe my view entails that every true ...
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Does the block universe theory of time imply necessitarianism? What about conversely?
Is the block universe theory of time logically equivalent to necessitarianism? If not, does at least one imply the other? Or are they logically independent?
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Does necessitarianism imply that every true statement about the physical world is a law of physics?
I am someone who believes that nothing is possible except the actual. In my view, all non-actual possible statements are false. So, for example, the statements "Unicorns could have evolved on ...
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Do contingent propositions about the world rely on the consistency of mathematics?
Assume that a contradiction in mathematics is discovered, say '0=1'. Then, by the principle of explosion from classical logic (by the rules of which, arguably, the world adheres as well) we can derive ...
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Can everything in the universe be metaphysically necessary without determinism?
Can every single event in the universe, be metaphysically necessary? In other words, could it be that the whole notion of possibility is wrong and that there is only one possible world?
One might ...
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