BEING And NECESSITY

Modern philosophy has long wrestled with the problem of causality and necessity. Hume reduced causality to a mere habit of thought, Kant sought to recover universality and necessity through the synthetic a priori, Quine dismantled the analytic-synthetic distinction, and Kripke revolutionized modal semantics with the necessary a posteriori. Yet beneath these disputes lies a fundamental question: are universality and necessity grounded in experience, in language, in the mind's categories-or i...