Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of necessitating or making necessary; the state of being made necessary; compulsion. Hobbes, Liberty and Necessity.
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- noun
Necessity , understood as alogical or otherphilosophical principle , or as alaw orforce ofnature .
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This is the principle stating that, if a formula A is logically valid, i.e., a logical truth, then its necessitation, that is, the formula obtained by prefixing to it a box or necessity operator, is logically valid, too.
Impossible Worlds Berto, Francesco 2009
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A law is a second-order relation of nomic necessitation (N, for short) holding among two or more first-order properties.
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By necessitation, it follows that K (p § ¬Kp) is necessarily false.
Fitch's Paradox of Knowability Brogaard, Berit 2009
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The problem seems to be that the supervenience definition of physicalism in effect presupposes something like Hume's dictum, in that it uses failure of necessitation as a test for distinctness.
Physicalism Stoljar, Daniel 2009
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As we saw in section 3.4, the Second Analogy of Experience, if true, guarantees both the objectivity and the universal diachronic or temporally successive causal necessitation of objects of experience and all of their parts under natural laws.
Kant's Theory of Judgment Hanna, Robert 2009
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Why, though, should we suppose that this necessitation thesis (that if one trope is fully constituted by another trope, then it necessarily is) is true?
Moral Non-Naturalism Ridge, Michael 2008
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Shafer-Landau, however, wants to appeal to constitution rather than identity (this is a departure from Robb), and this makes it very unclear why we should accept the analogous necessitation thesis.
Moral Non-Naturalism Ridge, Michael 2008
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While it is still a program or a complete concept, on Leibniz's view, that does imply determination or necessitation.
Leibniz's Modal Metaphysics Look, Brandon C. 2008
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But honestly, I think a higher emphasis should be placed on the instituting of green practices energy usage reduction, etc rather than the development of green technologies and the necessitation of a stronger regulatory environment for the green movement to succeed.
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Al-GhazÄlÄ«'s target is the “Aristotelian philosopher”, exemplified by Avicenna, who affirms strict causal necessitation relations between creaturely causes and their effects.
Occasionalism Lee, Sukjae 2008
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