What I Do Not Believe, and Other Essays pp 249-273 | Cite as
A Budget of Cross-Type Inferences, or Invention is the Mother of Necessity
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From what is contingent nothing necessary follows. And from what is necessary nothing contingent follows. Let us call this ‘the Hume-Leibniz dictum’. These theses never occur full-blown in Hume or Leibniz, but the dictum is implicit within the philosophies history has come to associate with these thinkers.
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Semantic Content Contingent Proposition Contingent Claim Contingent Truth Material Implication
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© D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1971