Necessitation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Necessitation is a noun meaning (chiefly philosophy) Necessity, understood as a logical or other philosophical principle, or as a law or force of nature.
Meaning
(chiefly philosophy) Necessity, understood as a logical or other philosophical principle, or as a law or force of nature.
Example Sentences
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.
In virtue of their contents, psychological states stand in logical relations like incompatibility, material implication, and conceptual necessitation.
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.
Word Forms
- necessitations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include nomic, necessitude, necessity, necessarianism, necessariness, needcessity.
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