ADEVAR NECESAR A POSTERIORI

Author(s): RICHARD SWINBURNE
Journal: Analysis and Metaphysics
ISSN: 1584-0778
Year: 2005
Volume: 4
Issue: 1
Full text: http://www.denbridgepress.com/am_abstract.php?a=3
Publisher: Denbridge Press - New York
Abstract: Swinburne distinguishes between sentences, statements, and propositions, and notes that there are other possible understandings of 'what is said' by a token sentence, additional to those of the proposition and the statement. If 'what is said' is necessary, and you can know what it is, then you can know a priori that it is true. There are no necessary a posteriori truths, in the sense of 'necessary' as true in all possible worlds, which has been called the 'broadly logical' sense of 'necessary'.