• Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic (1947; enlarged edition 1956) is a book about semantics and modal logic by the philosopher...
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    reference to Rudolf Carnap's book Meaning and Necessity, which, like Naming and Necessity, is also about semantics and modal logic. Language is a primary...
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  • Semantics, and Ontology". Revue Internationale de Philosophie. 4: 20–40. Reprinted in the Supplement to Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal...
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  • In logic and mathematics, necessity and sufficiency are terms used to describe a conditional or implicational relationship between two statements. For...
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  • IX, "The Everlasting Yea". Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force:...
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  • description, occurs: it occurs by conceptual necessity if and only if it occurs just by virtue of the meaning of the description. If someone is a bachelor...
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    Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning. It examines what meaning is, how words get their meaning, and how the meaning of a complex expression depends...
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  • metaphysical necessity, sometimes called broad logical necessity, is one of many different kinds of necessity, which sits between logical necessity and nomological...
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    Meaning and Necessity, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1947. “A Formulation of the Logic of Sense and Denotation”, in P. Henle, M. Kallen, and S...
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  • Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution is a 2022 novel of speculative fiction by R. F. Kuang set...
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  • subject: Philosophy of Language. Carnap, R., (1956). Meaning and Necessity: a Study in Semantics and Modal Logic. University of Chicago Press. Collins,...
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    Bombing of Braunschweig (15 October 1944) (category Aerial operations and battles of World War II involving the United Kingdom)
    military necessity given that the war was into its final phase. This is part of the debate on whether the destruction of other German cities and loss of...
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  • philosophy of language, metaphysics, and metasemantics—meaning "is a relationship between two sorts of things: signs and the kinds of things they intend,...
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  • Waismann's Logik, Sprache, Philosophie Named in reference to Carnap's Meaning and Necessity. Foot was the granddaughter of former US President Grover Cleveland...
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  • Internal–external distinction (category Meaning (philosophy of language))
    logic: Meaning and Necessity. Quine's criticism of the internal-external distinction is found in his works On Carnap's views on Ontology and Word and Object...
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  • education movement and observes how sexuality continues to define a young woman's morality and self-worth. The meaning and necessity of virginity as a...
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    Phenomenological Research, Vol. 8, pp.133–148. 1947. Meaning and Necessity: a Study in Semantics and Modal Logic. University of Chicago Press. [enlarged...
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  • Chance and Necessity: Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology (French: Le Hasard et la Nécessité: Essai sur la philosophie naturelle de la biologie...
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  • A posteriori necessity is a thesis in metaphysics and the philosophy of language, that some statements of which we must acquire knowledge a posteriori...
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    Chekhov's gun (category Metaphors referring to war and violence)
    until later. This plot twist meaning is separate from Chekhov's original intent of narrative conservation and necessity. The principle is carried out...
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  • equivocates between the de dicto necessity of a) and the de re necessity of c). The argument is only valid if both a) and c) are construed de re. This, however...
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  • (1956). "Supplement A. Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology". Meaning and necessity: a study in semantics and modal logic (2 ed.). University of Chicago Press...
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    Jerry Fodor (category American consciousness researchers and theorists)
    9780674594722. ISBN 978-0674594722. Fodor 1981 Carnap, Rudolf (1947). Meaning and Necessity. Chicago: Chicago University Press. ISBN 978-0-226-09347-5. {{cite...
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    The Battle of Fort Necessity, also known as the Battle of the Great Meadows, took place on July 3, 1754, in present-day Farmington in Fayette County,...
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    Ananke (category Time and fate goddesses)
    noun ἀνάγκη ("force, constraint, necessity"), is the Orphic personification of inevitability, compulsion, and necessity. She is customarily depicted as...
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  • 1948 Rudolf Carnap, Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic, 1947/1956 Rudolf Carnap, "Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology", 1950 W...
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    Definition (category Meaning (philosophy of language))
    definitions, which convey the meaning of a term by pointing out examples. A term may have many different senses and multiple meanings, and thus require multiple...
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  • "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a proverb. It states that the primary driving force for most new inventions is a need. On Lexico, the proverb...
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  • of Kripke and others (see Hilary Putnam), philosophers tend to distinguish the notion of aprioricity more clearly from that of necessity and analyticity...
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  • Comprehensive sex education (category Sexuality and society)
    education movement and observed how sexuality continues to define a young woman's morality and self-worth. The meaning and necessity of virginity as a...
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