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  title info:
    title: Logical necessity and rational thought
  name:
    name part: Graves, David
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 188 pages ; 22 cm
  abstract: "This book explores Wittgenstein's unsettling remark in the Tractatus that the only necessity that exists is logical necessity. It suggests that the notion of necessity is a primitive notion, and, as such, both a requirement for human cognition and constitutive of rational thought. On this basis, the book then reexamines some of the perennial questions of philosophy including logic itself, beauty, law, truth and the concept of God. All of these topics are seen to be closely related to the notion of necessity. It is argued that if logical necessity is the only necessity that exists, then Kant's notion of the subjective necessity of aesthetic judgments must be reconsidered. Likewise, metaphysical, moral, and practical necessity must all be revised. Finally, a new dimension is added to the analysis. It is shown that the notion of logical necessity is human in its origin, and yet also absolute. This insight reopens the possibility of logical absolutism, as opposed to the current, general consensus around logical relativism. Moreover, it becomes possible to entertain a notion of logical absolutism without the problematic baggage of metaphysical and/or divine considerations. This new sense of logical absolutism facilitates a reconsideration of certain epistemological claims directly related to logical truths, for example, so-called analytical propositions. Logical Necessity and Rational Thought is essential reading for all scholars, researchers and advanced students of philosophical logic. It is also ideal for researchers of the thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein." --
  note: David Graves.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
      name part: 1889-1951
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    topic: Necessity (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Nécessité (Philosophie)
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    topic: Necessity (Philosophy)
  classification: BC199.N35 G73 2026
  classification: 160
  identifier: 9783032140852
  identifier: 3032140854
  identifier: 9783032140869
  record info:
    record content source: UKMGB
    record creation date: 260119
    record change date: 20260728083727.0
    record identifier: in00005790595
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng