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Ep. 107 - The Metaphysics of Truth and Facts w/Dr. Josh Rasmussen

Parker's Pensées

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How Do We Get From Necessary Existence?

"I wanted to move from truth and see if we get to necessary existence, to a necessary mind," he says. "In fact, im from k so, named after after cripky, there's a kind of minimal, a minimal logic where theorems of logic are themselves necessary." The argument is that in order for there to be necessary truths, ok? Like, for example, one plus one equals two,. Ah, there is a principle of logic that the nee self is not just contingent, it's not just coincidence or anything like that, is actually metaphysically necessary. If something actually has necessity, then it also has truth - but it can't have truth

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