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    Campbell, D.
    Date
    2016
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10092/12384

    This paper concerns the necessary/ contingent dichotomy, the a priori / empirical dichotomy and the analytic / synthetic dichotomy. These three dichotomies can be combined to produce a tri-dichotomy of eight modal categories. The question as to which of these categories house propositions and which don’t is a pivotal battleground in the history of analytic philosophy, with key protagonists including Descartes, Hume, Kant, Kripke, Putnam and Kaplan. All parties to the debate have accepted that some categories are void. This paper argues, to the contrary, that all eight categories house propositions—a position I dub ‘octopropositionalism’. Examples of propositions belonging to all eight categories are given.

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    Philosophical Logic
     
    Analytic
     
    A priori
     
    necessary
     
    Hume
     
    Kant
     
    Kripke
     
    Field of Research::22 - Philosophy and Religious Studies::2203 - Philosophy
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