Linking Necessity to Apriority

What is the Correct Logic of Necessity, actuality and apriority?

This paper is concerned with a propositional modal logic with operators for necessity, actuality and apriority. The logic is characterized by a class of relational structures defined according to ideas of epistemic two-dimensional semantics, and can therefore be seen as formalizing the relations between necessity, actuality and apriority according to epistemic two-dimensional semantics. We can ...

Holism and Apriority

The paper discusses Sosa’s view of intuitional knowledge and raises the question of the nature of refl ective justifi cation of intuitional beliefs. It is assumed, in agreement with Sosa, that pieces of belief of good researchers are typically refl ectively justifi ed, in addition to being immediately, fi rst-level justifi ed. Sosa has convincingly argued that refl ective justifi cation typical...

Apriority from the 'Grundlage' to the 'System of Ethics'

Apriority, Super-Rigidity, and Fregean Content

ROBERT SMITHSON: Apriority, Super-Rigidity, and Fregean Content (Under the direction of William Lycan) What is the difference between an utterance of the sentence 'Hesperus is Hesperus' and an utterance of the sentence 'Hesperus is Phosphorus'? David Chalmers claims that these sentences are psychologically and epistemologically distinct because they are associated with distinct fine-grained Fre...

Necessity of Paying Attention to Sesame Oil Production Safety

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