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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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  • 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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  • 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 and...
    28 KB (2,666 words) - 21:23, 5 September 2024
  • 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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  • Records, along with a different version of "A Distorted Reality Is Now a Necessity to Be Free". According to McConnell, Smith did not intend to have "Pretty...
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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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    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 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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  • "Dark Necessities" is a song by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers and is the first single from their eleventh studio album, The Getaway. After...
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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...
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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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  • A posteriori necessity is a thesis in metaphysics and the philosophy of language, that some statements of which we must acquire knowledge a posteriori...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • In modal logic, the necessity of identity is the thesis that for every object x and object y, if x and y are the same object, it is necessary that x and...
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    A Treatise of Human Nature (category Use British English from October 2021)
    confuse necessity with violent constraint, we end up confusing freedom from necessity (the indeterministic "liberty of indifference") with freedom from violent...
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    the world today. Most often, the implementation of martial law arises from necessity rather than legal right, and while some countries have provisions explicitly...
    71 KB (8,705 words) - 07:14, 28 August 2024
  • Military necessity, along with distinction, and proportionality, are three important principles of international humanitarian law governing the legal...
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  • In the criminal law of many nations, necessity may be either a possible justification or an exculpation for breaking the law. Defendants seeking to rely...
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