Philosophy A-Level
Certainty versus necessity
What Certainty versus necessity means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Certainty versus necessity
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Necessity concerns whether a claim could be false at all, not confidence, universal agreement or being well supported by evidence.
Topics that use Certainty versus necessity
- Subject content: Philosophical terminology (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- A priori knowledge
- A priori/a posteriori distinction
- Analytic/synthetic distinction
- Claim type versus truth value
- Consistency
- Containment of predicate in subject
- Contradiction as a test for analyticity
- Deductive validity
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