causal necessity

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• causal necessity — noun : necessity 1d(2) …   Useful english dictionary

• Causal theory of reference — A causal theory of reference is any of a family of views about how terms acquire specific referents. Such theories have been used to describe reference in regard to all sorts of reference bearing terms, particularly logically proper names and… …   Wikipedia

• necessity, accidental —    A proposition is true of accidental necessity at a certain time if it is outside causal reach at that time, that is, if it cannot be caused to be true or caused to be false at that time. It is alleged in the problem of foreknowledge and… …   Christian Philosophy

• causal theory of meaning — The view that the link between words and the world, whereby words mean what they do, is a causal link. The theory is aired in Kripke s Naming and Necessity for the special case of proper names. A plausible way of thinking of the link between the… …   Philosophy dictionary

• Metaphysical necessity — A proposition is necessary if it could not have been false. But there are various strengths of necessity. In some sense, it necessarily takes longer than a day to get to the moon, because we don t have fast enough rockets to get us there any… …   Wikipedia

• Naming and Necessity —   …   Wikipedia

• Free will — This article is about the philosophical questions of free will. For other uses, see Free will (disambiguation). A domino s movement is determined completely by laws of physics. Incompatibilists say that this is a threat to free will, but… …   Wikipedia

• David Hume — For other people named David Hume, see David Hume (disambiguation). David Hume David Hume Born 7 May 1711(1711 05 07) Edinburgh, Scotland Died 25 August 1776( …   Wikipedia

• CAUSE AND EFFECT — Divergent conceptions of the relation between cause and effect (or agent and act) can be found throughout Jewish religious and non religious literature from ancient times to the present. Indeed, this relation clearly underlies many of the most… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• GOD — IN THE BIBLE The Bible is not a single book, but a collection of volumes composed by different authors living in various countries over a period of more than a millennium. In these circumstances, divergencies of emphasis (cf. Kings with… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Dilthey, Wilhelm — Dilthey Michael Lessnoff INTRODUCTION Wilhelm Dilthey was born in 1833 near Wiesbaden, and thus lived through the period of Bismarck’s creation of a unified German Empire by ‘blood and iron’. These turbulent events, however, scarcely perturbed… …   History of philosophy