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logical | necessitation |

As an adjective logical

is (not comparable) in agreement with the principles of logic.

As a noun necessitation is

(chiefly|philosophy) necessity, understood as a logical or other philosophical principle, or as a law or force of nature.

logical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (not comparable) In agreement with the principles of logic.
  • Reasonable.
  • (not comparable) Of or pertaining to logic.
  • (computing) Non-physical or conceptual yet underpinned by something physical or actual.
    • Logical memory appears contiguous to an application program, but may well be stored on several physical devices, including in RAM and on hard-disks, as determined by the operating system.
  • * 1986 , Noel Malcolm Morris, Computer graphics and CAD fundamentals: BBC Micro version
    • It is, of course, vital to restore the logical colours to their normal value at the end of the program

    Antonyms

    * illogical

    Derived terms

    * logically * logical analysis * logical atomism * logical positivism * logical empiricism

    Related terms

    * rational * biological, neurological, physiological, etc. (use of the suffix -ical as opposed to just -ic)

    necessitation

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (chiefly, philosophy) Necessity, understood as a logical or other philosophical principle, or as a law or force of nature.
  • *1894 , J. G. Schurman, "The Consciousness of Moral Obligation," The Philosophical Review , vol. 3, no. 6, p. 641:
  • *:Moral obligation is not necessitation . The moral law commands but does not coerce us.
  • *1896 , J. Clark Murray, "The Idealism of Spinoza," The Philosophical Review , vol. 5, no. 5, p. 485:
  • *:The voluntary actions of men are now seen to claim an equal freedom from the necessitation of natural causes.
  • *1957 , J. W. N. Watkins, "Between Analytic and Empirical," Philosophy , vol. 32, no. 121, p. 114:
  • *: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 .
  • *2001 , Eric Marcus, "Mental Causation: Unnaturalized but Not Unnatural," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , vol. 63, no. 1, p. 79:
  • *:In virtue of their contents, psychological states stand in logical relations like incompatibility, material implication, and conceptual necessitation .

    • Usage notes

    * (term), (necessitousness), (necessitation), (necessariness) are all nouns closely related to (necessity), but they tend to have narrower ranges of usage than the term necessity''. The principal sense of ''necessitude'' and ''necessitousness'' is impoverishment, but the plural form of the former ((necessitudes)) denotes a set of circumstances which is inevitable or unavoidable. ''Necessitation'' is used to suggest necessity as a philosophical or cosmic principle. ''Necessariness tends to be used to stress a direct connection to the adjective (necessary).

    Related terms

    * necessitate