Examination not attempted

Antony Flew

pp. 21-42

in: Roger Straughan, John Wilson (eds), Philosophers on education, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1987

Abstract

There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible, and those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. When a truth is necessary its reason can be found by analysis, resolving it into more simple ideas and truths until we reach those which are primitive (S. 33).