{"id":6006,"date":"2016-11-25T06:51:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T06:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/25\/contingent-and-necessary\/"},"modified":"2016-11-25T06:51:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T06:51:02","slug":"contingent-and-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/25\/contingent-and-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Contingent and Necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"

That we exist is contingent, that we won't necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n

(To spoil the aphorism by translating it into the patois of 'possible worlds':  we exist in some but not all possible worlds; but we are mortal in every world in which we exist.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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That we exist is contingent, that we won't necessary. (To spoil the aphorism by translating it into the patois of 'possible worlds':  we exist in some but not all possible worlds; but we are mortal in every world in which we exist.) Related articles Docendo Discimus Courage Maverick Philosopher: Time Balm Free Speech: Is It … Continue reading “Contingent and Necessary”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-modal-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}