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The article in the issue 1:3/1:4:
The date of the publication:
2012-12-18
The number of pages:
89
The issue:
1:3/1:4
Commentaries:
0
The Authors
Nikolai N. Nepejvoda, Stephen R. Palmquist, Igor Gasparov, Basil Lourié, Jan Woleński, Nikolay N. Prelovskiy, Nijaz Ibrulj, Kamil I. Bakhtiyarov, Stefan Goltzberg, Paweł Przywara, Roman Murawski, Andrew Schumann,
PhD, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Voronezh State Medical Academy (Russia).
Email: gasparov@mail.ru
ARTICLE:
There Is No Metaphysical a Posteriori Necessity
autor: Igor Gasparov,
Water is H2O. Is it simply so? Or must it be so? Kripke believes the second: If true at all, it must be that water is H2O. What, however, are his reasons why it must be so? Roughly, they are as follows: If two things are identical to each other, then they are necessarily so. The necessity of identity can be proved from the necessity of self-identity and the Leibniz’s Law.
