Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise. In the case of some necessary a poster...iori truths, however, we can say that under appropriate qualitatively identical evidential situations, an appropriate corresponding qualitative statement might have been false.... The inaccurate statement that Hesperus might have turned out not to be Phosphorus should be replaced by the true contingency ... two distinct bodies might have occupied, in the morning and evening, respectively, the very positions actually occupied by Hesperus- Phosphorus-Venus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necess...ary and be known to be such.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an ou...tstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of ...a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »