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necessitation
Necessitation (noun) means Necessity seen as a principle of logic or philosophy, or as a law of nature.
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Necessity seen as a principle of logic or philosophy, or as a law of nature.
"Determinism is an example: it alleges that all the seeming irregularities and spontaneities in the world are haunted by an omnipresent system of strict necessitation."
— J. W. N. Watkins, Between Analytic and Empirical (1957)
"In virtue of their contents, psychological states stand in logical relations like incompatibility, material implication, and conceptual necessitation."
— Eric Marcus, Mental Causation: Unnaturalized but Not Unnatural (2001)
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Rhymes for necessitation
region
ablation
allusion
emulsion
ideation
novation
diffusion
elocution
extension
oxidation
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"necessitation" (noun) means necessity seen as a principle of logic or philosophy, or as a law of nature.
