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The unwanted necessity objection.
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One expression of the non-necessity objection is the following articulated 'incredulous stare' (after Lewis 1986).
The non-necessity objection to this rejects its claim that only pleasure is good, or its claim that only displeasure is bad, or both of these claims.
Many well-known criticisms of hedonism can reasonably be interpreted as non-necessity objections.
There is a range of possible hedonist responses to non-necessity objections.
A third reply hedonists might make to non-necessity objections is to allow that the item in question is or includes non-pleasure that has value, but then to argue that this is merely instrumental value.
Perhaps Kant is too quick to conclude that the argument from universality and necessity is decisive, for in addition, associationist objections of this sort must be answered — as contemporary critical discussions of proposals for innate concepts indicate (Pereboom 1995: 31 3).
One possible objection to our insistence on the necessity of taking contextual, qualitative, and developmental aspects of the "object" of the psycho-diagnostic assessment into consideration might be that such emphasis is today obviated by the "top-down" operational classifications, with weak or absent hierarchy rules.
But proponents of generalized 2D semantics argue that the 2D framework undercuts this objection, by showing how such aposteriori necessities are consistent with apriori access to truth-conditions.
Orthodox Protestant objections to vaccination focus on the necessity of trust in divine providence.
To run this sort of objection, the critic endorses some principle about the necessity of beliefs which itself presupposes that eliminative materialism must be false (P. S. Churchland, 1986; Cling, 1989; Devitt, 1990; Ramsey, 1991).
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