Lexicon of Arguments

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IV 37
Causally necessary/Lewis: is a sentence if it is true in all possible worlds in which the same laws of nature apply.
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Schwarz I 156
Necessary a posteriori: "Water is H2O" is a posteriori, because first of all you have to find out that the material that fills our streams and lakes is H2O.- necessary: in all possible worlds the substance that fills our streams is H2O - Discovery is contingent (chemical, not modal) - therefore, the H2O truths imply a priori the water truths.
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Rorty II 123
LewisVsWittgenstein: distinctions between essence and accidence or between necessity and contingency are an artificial product that changes with the description.
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Schwarz I 226
A posteriori necessary/Schwarz: e.g. the sentence "Everything is the way it really is" necessarily implies all truths, but only for the actual world - >Quidditism, >Panpsychism.

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