Necessity and Color Incompatibility

Authors

Brian Kierland, Boise State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-1-2011

Abstract

A traditional view is that all necessary truths are analytic. A frequent objection is that certain claims of color incompatibility – e.g., 'Nothing is both red and green all over' – are necessarily true but not analytic. I argue that this objection to the traditional view fails because such color incompatibility claims are either analytic or contingent.

Publication Information

Kierland, Brian. (2011). "Necessity and Color Incompatibility". Disputatio, 4(31), 235-237.