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Contingent laws rule: reply to Bird

Analysis 62 (3):252-255 (2002)

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  1. (1 other version)Necessarily, salt dissolves in water.Alexander Bird - 2001 - Analysis 61 (4):267–274.
    In this paper I aim to show that a certain law of nature, namely that common salt (sodium chloride) dissolves in water, is metaphysically necessary. The importance of this result is that it conflicts with a widely shared intuition that the laws of nature (most if not all) are contingent. There have been debates over whether some laws, such as Newton’s second law, might be definitional of their key terms and hence necessary. But the law that salt dissolves in water (...)
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  • (1 other version)Necessarily, salt dissolves in water.A. Bird - 2001 - Analysis 61 (4):267-274.
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