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Plantinga explains the notion of a "(logically) necessary truth" by giving examples. Which of these is NOT an example of a logically necessary truth?

    { 1 } - No bachelors are married.
    { 2 } - If all men are mortal and Socrates is a man, then Socrates is mortal.
    { 3 } - 2+2=4
    { 4 } - No numbers are persons.
    { 5 } - No human can swim across the Atlantic Ocean.
    { 6 } - All of these are examples of logically necessary truths.

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Plantinga explains the notion of a "(logically) necessary truth" by giving examples. Which of these is NOT an example of a logically necessary truth?

This is an example of a logically necessary truth.

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Plantinga explains the notion of a "(logically) necessary truth" by giving examples. Which of these is NOT an example of a logically necessary truth?

    { 1 } - No bachelors are married.
    { 2 } - If all men are mortal and Socrates is a man, then Socrates is mortal.
    { 3 } - 2+2=4
    { 4 } - No numbers are persons.
    { 5 } - No human can swim across the Atlantic Ocean.
    { 6 } - All of these are examples of logically necessary truths.

This is an example of a logically necessary truth.

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Plantinga explains the notion of a "(logically) necessary truth" by giving examples. Which of these is NOT an example of a logically necessary truth?

    { 1 } - No bachelors are married.
    { 2 } - If all men are mortal and Socrates is a man, then Socrates is mortal.
    { 3 } - 2+2=4
    { 4 } - No numbers are persons.
    { 5 } - No human can swim across the Atlantic Ocean.
    { 6 } - All of these are examples of logically necessary truths.

This is an example of a logically necessary truth.

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Plantinga explains the notion of a "(logically) necessary truth" by giving examples. Which of these is NOT an example of a logically necessary truth?

    { 1 } - No bachelors are married.
    { 2 } - If all men are mortal and Socrates is a man, then Socrates is mortal.
    { 3 } - 2+2=4
    { 4 } - No numbers are persons.
    { 5 } - No human can swim across the Atlantic Ocean.
    { 6 } - All of these are examples of logically necessary truths.

This is an example of a logically necessary truth.

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Plantinga explains the notion of a "(logically) necessary truth" by giving examples. Which of these is NOT an example of a logically necessary truth?

    { 1 } - No bachelors are married.
    { 2 } - If all men are mortal and Socrates is a man, then Socrates is mortal.
    { 3 } - 2+2=4
    { 4 } - No numbers are persons.
    { 5 } - No human can swim across the Atlantic Ocean.
    { 6 } - All of these are examples of logically necessary truths.

This is causally necessary (since humans lack the required swimming capacity), but it isn't logically necessary. We could consistently imagine a human swimming across the Atlantic Ocean. The idea involves no self-contradiction.

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Plantinga explains the notion of a "(logically) necessary truth" by giving examples. Which of these is NOT an example of a logically necessary truth?

    { 1 } - No bachelors are married.
    { 2 } - If all men are mortal and Socrates is a man, then Socrates is mortal.
    { 3 } - 2+2=4
    { 4 } - No numbers are persons.
    { 5 } - No human can swim across the Atlantic Ocean.
    { 6 } - All of these are examples of logically necessary truths.

One of them isn't.

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