Abelard's own intentionalist semantics grounds necessity in mental content, yet the sense of 'human being' can be grasped without grasping 'animal' (as pre-Aristotelian speakers demonstrate).

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Abelard: # Abelard Peter Abelard (1079–1142) was a French philosopher and theologian who became famous for his brilliant teaching at the University of Paris and for his tragic love affair with Héloïse, a student who became a nun. He developed new ways of thinking about logic and reasoning, and challenged church authorities by questioning whether blind faith alone was enough—he believed people should use their minds to understand religious beliefs. His life and ideas made him one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the medieval period.
Necessity (in philosophy)(describing what kind of claim is being made about supernatural things): Something that must be true or must exist; it couldn't possibly be otherwise (as opposed to something that just happens to be true but could have been different).
Pre-Aristotelian speakers(used as an example of people who might not have understood ideas the way Aristotle organized them): People who lived before the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BCE) developed his logical system and way of organizing knowledge.
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