Legg, Catherine and Franklin, James (2017) Perceiving Necessity. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 98. pp. 320-343. ISSN 1468-0114
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Abstract
In many diagrams one seems to perceive necessity – one sees not only that something is so, but that it must be so. That conflicts with a certain empiricism largely taken for granted in contemporary philosophy, which believes perception is not capable of such feats. The reason for this belief is often thought well-summarized in Hume’s maxim: ‘there are no necessary connections between distinct existences’. It is also thought that even if there were such necessities, perception is too passive or localized a faculty to register them. We defend the perception of necessity against such Humeanism, drawing on examples from mathematics.
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| Keywords: | necessity, perception, mathematics, diagrams, epistemology, Hume, abstraction, Aristotelian realism | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Epistemology Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Explanation Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Practice |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Catherine Legg | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 19 Oct 2021 17:27 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2021 17:27 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 19711 | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Pacific Philosophical Quarterly | |||||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1111/papq.12133 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Epistemology Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Explanation Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Practice |
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| Date: | 2017 | |||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 320-343 | |||||||||
| Volume: | 98 | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 1468-0114 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19711 |
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