Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(chiefly philosophy) Necessity, understood as a logical or other philosophical principle, or as a law or force of nature..
Moral obligation is not necessitation. The moral law commands but does not coerce us.
The voluntary actions of men are now seen to claim an equal freedom from the necessitation of natural causes.
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.
In virtue of their contents, psychological states stand in logical relations like incompatibility, material implication, and conceptual necessitation.
Use necessitation when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Necessitation means (chiefly philosophy) Necessity, understood as a logical or other philosophical principle, or as a law or force of nature..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Moral obligation is not necessitation. The moral law commands but does not coerce us.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.