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Philosophy of LanguageIntermediate15 minPlanned

The Necessary A Posteriori

Water is H2O, the standard metre, and how rigid designation splits necessity from apriority

Planned, not yet written

This rung already has its place in the Philosophy of Language ladder and a fixed job in the order. The prose is what is missing. Writing it out of sequence would break the guarantee that nothing here uses a term before an earlier article defines it.

Will definecontingent a priorireference-fixing description
Assumesnecessary a posterioririgid designatora priorinatural kind termmetaphysical possibility