Necessary a Posteriori Truth
American Philosophical Quarterly 28 (2):113 - 123 (1991)
| Abstract | Two sentences express the same proposition if they are synonymous; they express the same statement if they attribute the same properties to the same objects at the same time (however objects and times are picked out). Neither propositions nor statements are necessary a posteriori. Suggested examples of the necessary a posteriori, such as "Hesperus is Phosphorus", or "water is H2O", only appear to be such because of a confusion between proposition and statement. | |||||||||
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