Necessity, Essence, and Individuation
A Defense of Conventionalism| By: | Alan Sidelle |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9780801421662 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781501746260 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 1989 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Alan Sidelle's Necessity, Essence, and Individuation is a sustained defense of empiricism—or, more generally, conventionalism—against recent attacks by realists. Sidelle focuses his attention on necessity a posteriori, a kind of necessity which contemporary realists have taken to support realism over empiricism. Turning the tables against the realists, Sidelle argues that if there are in fact truths necessary a posteriori, it is not realism, but rather empiricism which provides the best explanation for them.