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Consider ‘Hume’s dictum’: that from a necessary proposition nothing contingent follows — and vice versa. The effect of this on speculative metaphysics is devastating, although few practicing metaphysicians realize how utterly their position has been devastated. I will spell this out by drawing the profound logical moral of Hume’s dictum.
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Hanson, N.R. (1971). On the Impossibility of any Future Metaphysics. In: Toulmin, S., Woolf, H. (eds) What I Do Not Believe, and Other Essays. Synthese Library, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3108-0_13
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