<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>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.</p></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.

Necessity and Color Incompatibility

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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...

Necessity and Color Incompatibility

Published Online: Dec 31, 2018

Page range: 235 - 237

Received: Mar 17, 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2011-0010

Keywords
Necessity, analyticity, color, color incompatibility

© 2011 Brian Kierland, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Necessity and Color Incompatibility

Published Online: Dec 31, 2018

Page range: 235 - 237

Received: Mar 17, 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2011-0010

KeywordsNecessity, analyticity, color, color incompatibility

© 2011 Brian Kierland, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Necessity, analyticity, color, color incompatibility