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Title: Michael Duncan
Hume's Dictum and the Notion of Logical Entailment
In A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume says, "There is no object, which
implies the existence of any other if we consider these objects in
themselves, and never look beyond the ideas which we form of them" (Book I,
Part III, Section VI). This is known as Hume's Dictum, and is often glossed
as the claim that there are no metaphysically necessary connections between
distinct (intrinsically typed) objects. It has been argued (by e.g., Daniel
Stoljar and Jessica Wilson) that, taken at face value, Hume's Dictum is
false; for there appear to be clear counterexamples to it. One such
counterexample is a composite object and its proper parts. That a chair
with certain properties exists, for instance, seems to entail that certain
other objects (some chair legs, perhaps) exist. However, I will argue that
this is a case in which appearances are misleading: there are, and can be,
no necessary connections between distinct objects. More specifically, I
will argue that Hume's Dictum is a conceptual truth, and that we therefore
need to rethink the supposed counterexamples. My argument for this
conclusion will rest on the claim that logical entailment should be
understood in terms of containment.
When: Thu 10 Sep 2015 15:00 - 16:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney
Calendar: Current Projects
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* kristiemiller4 at gmail.com- creator
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