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  1. Whewell on necessity.Harold T. Walsh - 1962 - Philosophy of Science 29 (2):139-145.
    It is generally not recognized that Whewell's conception of necessary truth evolved only gradually; his early statements are misleading. For this reason, and because of certain peculiarities in his expository style over his publishing history, he is commonly thought to have used the term "necessary" in the sense of "absolutely necessary". I argue that, on the contrary, the term is essentially relational in his mature view. This conclusion leads, in turn, to a re-interpretation of his doctrine of "fundamental ideas". Here (...)
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  • Necessary Truth in Whewell's Theory of Science.Robert E. Butts - 1965 - American Philosophical Quarterly 2 (3):161 - 181.
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  • On Walsh's reading of Whewell's view of necessity.Robert E. Butts - 1965 - Philosophy of Science 32 (2):175-181.
    In a recent paper,[3], Harold T. Walsh has argued that Whewell's commentators have in the past misunderstood his use of “necessary,” that Whewell's theory of necessary truth developed only gradually through thirty years of scholarly activity, finally finding a “mature” expression in Philosophy of Discovery, published in 1860, and that a proper understanding of Whewell's “mature” theory of necessary truth leads to a fundamental re-interpretation of the nature of the Ideas and of their role in scientific systems—that the meaning of (...)
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