Concept tag
#necessity
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How can I know nothing is red and green all over, when I’ve never checked every red thing?
I finished school this year and I am reading philosophy before university. A friend gave me this puzzle and I can't stop thinking about it. A surface cannot be completely red and completely green at the same time, in the same place.…
Started by Fajar Nugroho4 replies179 views -
“Not necessarily” versus “necessarily not”: can someone explain the difference with an everyday example?
I left accountancy to raise two children, and the older one (nine) has started catching me out on words. Yesterday I said "it won't necessarily rain at the picnic". She said, "So it necessarily won't rain?" I said no, that's different. She…
Started by Thamarai Selvi Raman4 replies216 views -
Emanation cannot be squared with a God who freely creates, and al-Ghazālī saw exactly why
I model oil reservoirs, so I spend my working days with systems where outputs follow necessarily from inputs. Perhaps that's why the Neoplatonic picture of the world troubles me. In that picture, everything flows from the One the way light flows from…
Started by Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani6 replies215 views