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necessitation

noun

Etymology

From necessitate + -ation.

  1. derived from necessitās
  2. derived from necessitātus
  3. suffixed as necessitation — “necessitate + ation”

Definitions

  1. Necessity, understood as a logical or other philosophical principle, or as a law or force…

    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.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for necessitation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA