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  • In logic and mathematics, necessity and sufficiency are terms used to describe a conditional or implicational relationship between two statements. For...
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  • Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution is a 2022 novel of speculative fiction by R. F. Kuang. It...
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  • In economics, a necessity good or a necessary good is a type of normal good. Necessity goods are product(s) and services that consumers will buy regardless...
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  • Chance and Necessity: Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology (French: Le Hasard et la Nécessité: Essai sur la philosophie naturelle de la biologie...
    31 KB (4,855 words) - 23:49, 16 January 2024
  • metaphysical necessity, sometimes called broad logical necessity, is one of many different kinds of necessity, which sits between logical necessity and nomological...
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  • defendant did not act to commit the crime. The defense of necessity applies when defendant is forced by natural circumstances to choose between two evils, and...
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  • The doctrine of necessity is the basis on which extraordinary actions by administrative authority, which are designed to restore order or uphold fundamental...
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  • The seven necessities stem from the phrase "Firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea are the seven necessities to begin a day". The items were...
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  • Look up necessary or necessity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Necessary or necessity may refer to: Need An action somebody may feel they must do An...
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    Spindle of Necessity", in that the cosmos is represented by the Spindle attended by sirens and the three daughters of the Goddess Necessity known collectively...
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  • Necessities or The Bare Necessities may refer to: "The Bare Necessities", a song from the 1967 animated feature The Jungle Book The Bare Necessities,...
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  • Villains by Necessity is a fantasy novel written by Eve Forward. Over a century after the ultimate triumph of good over evil, the world's last assassin...
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  • Perdrix (transl. Partridge, also known as The Bare Necessity) is a 2019 French drama film directed by Erwan Le Duc. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight...
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    Naming and Necessity is a 1980 book with the transcript of three lectures, given by the philosopher Saul Kripke, at Princeton University in 1970, in which...
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  • The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters (published in the United Kingdom as The Big Necessity: Adventures in the World...
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  • A state of necessity may refer to: Canon 1324 Doctrine of necessity Military necessity Necessity (criminal law) Necessity (tort) State of exception This...
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  • logic, accidental necessity, often stated in its Latin form, necessitas per accidens, refers to the necessity attributed to the past by certain views of...
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    "The Necessity of Atheism" is an essay on atheism by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, printed in 1811 by Charles and William Phillips in Worthing...
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  • Medical necessity is a legal doctrine in the United States related to activities that may be justified as reasonable, necessary, and/or appropriate based...
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  • "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a proverb. It states that the primary driving force for most new inventions is a need. On Lexico, the proverb...
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