Necessity and Color Incompatibility

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Abstract

A traditional view is that all necessary truths are analytic. A frequent objection is that certain claims of color incompatibility – e.g., 'Nothing is both red and green all over' – are necessarily true but not analytic. I argue that this objection to the traditional view fails because such color incompatibility claims are either analytic or contingent.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)235-237
Number of pages3
JournalDisputatio
Volume4
Issue number31
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2011

Keywords

  • Analyticity
  • Color
  • Color incompatibility
  • Necessity

EGS Disciplines

  • Philosophy

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