ABSTRACT
A recourse with greater prospects for success is the grounding of the necessity of laws in considerations less direct than the alleged perception of a necessary connection. The structure of the semantics of weaker forms of necessity such as factual necessity or entailment is based on the structure of the semantics of logical necessity. The semanticist's concern with interpretations which enable him to define validity and consequence within some theory also enable him to ignore vital components of the meaning of terms within the theory. A. Michotte found in his important work on The Perception of Causality that people do not perceive causal necessity. This conclusion is especially interesting in light of Michotte's bias against the regularity theory. Hence, the truth of the regularity theory would block the inference desired by the incompatibilist. At least, the burden of proof would fall upon the shoulders of the incompatibilist.
