• 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution is a 2022 novel of speculative fiction by R. F. Kuang and set in...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    Jerry Fodor (category American consciousness researchers and theorists)
    : The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-06079-0. Carnap, Rudolf (1947). Meaning and Necessity. Chicago: Chicago University Press. ISBN 978-0-226-09347-5. Field...
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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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  • especially the work of Saul Kripke and his Naming and Necessity (1980). According to one author, Naming and Necessity "played a large role in the implicit...
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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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  • modalen Logik. Wien/New York 1972 (Originalausgabe: Meaning and Necessity. A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic. Chicago/Toronto/London 1947). Quine, Willard...
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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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  • translates as "about the thing". The original meaning of the Latin locutions may help to elucidate the living meaning of the phrases, in the distinctions they...
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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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  • 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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  • "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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    they reached it. This was the Spindle of Necessity. Several women, including Lady Necessity, her daughters, and the Sirens were present. The souls – except...
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  • likelihood and certainty) deontic modality, concerned with possibility and necessity in terms of freedom to act (including permission and duty) dynamic...
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  • difficulties of language and meaning. Wittgenstein viewed the tools of language as being fundamentally simple [non-primary source needed], and he believed that...
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  • The seven necessities stem from the phrase "Firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea are the seven necessities to begin a day". The items were...
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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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