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Logical Necessity and Rational Thought

Logical Necessity and Rational Thought

Graves, David

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Logic

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ISBN10: 3032140854
ISBN13: 9783032140852
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Apr 24 2026
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.20 Depth: 8.55
Language: English
This book explores Wittgenstein's unsettling remark in the Tractatus that the only necessity that exists is logical necessity. It suggests that the notion of necessity is a primitive notion, and, as such, both a requirement for human cognition and constitutive of rational thought.

On this basis, the book then reexamines some of the perennial questions of philosophy including logic itself, beauty, law, truth and the concept of God. All of these topics are seen to be closely related to the notion of necessity. It is argued that if logical necessity XE logical necessity is the only necessity that exists, then Kant XE Kant, Immanuel 's notion of the subjective XE subjective necessity of aesthetic judgments must be reconsidered. Likewise, metaphysical XE metaphysical necessity, moral, and practical necessity must all be revised.

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