Archive for July 16th, 2008
Quine Confuses Modalities
He writes: Perhaps I can evoke the appropriate sense of bewilderment as follows. Mathematicians may conceivably be said to be necessarily rational and not necessarily two-legged; and cyclists necessarily two-legged and not necessarily rational. But what of an individual who counts amond his eccentricities both mathematics and cycling? Is this concrete individual necessarily rational and [...]
Posted: July 16th, 2008 under Metaphysics, Philosophy.
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