Beyond Necessity

Bill Vallicella argues here that a pronoun inherits its referent from the noun of which it is the antecedent. I say ‘John left the party ...

Anthony mentions in his comments here that he holds that logic itself is empirical, whereas I holds (he believes) that knowledge of logic i...

I have been reading the early fourteenth century writer Walter Burley. He was working at the same place (Oxford) and the same time (late 129...

And here is Locke on the distinction between truths of reason and truths of fact, from Bk 4 ch xi, 13 ' Of our Knowledge of the Existenc...

Here is a passage from the Essay (Bk IV, c. viii, 8) that is suggestive of the Analytic / Synthetic distinction. 8. … We can know then the ...

Spur writes here Leibniz and Hume have the same basic distinction in mind, between those truths which are necessary and can be known a prior...

'The predicate is included in the subject of a true proposition'. Leibniz says this (in a letter to Arnauld) but of course his use o...