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On the standard theory of a priori truth, a semantic truth is the central case of a nonempirical truth. Someone here quoted Hume's distriction between "matters of fact" and "relations of ideas," which corresponds to the distinction between a posteriori or empirical and a priori or (on some accounts) semantic. --jks

In a message dated Thu, 7 Sep 2000 11:06:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "Lisa & Ian Murray" <seamus at accessone.com> writes:

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> << effects do have causes, mate.
>  This ain't a philosophical statement, it's a semantic necessity, no? >>
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> That's one way of arguing that there are nonempirical truths. --jks
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Semantics are non-empirical? 

Ian

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