Necessitation vs Necessity - What's the difference?
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(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 .
The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
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That which is necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
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That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality.
* 1804 , Wordsworth,
The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
(legal) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act .
(legal, in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).
Necessity is a related term of necessitation.
As nouns the difference between necessitation and necessity
is that necessitation is necessity, understood as a logical or other philosophical principle, or as a law or force of nature while necessity is (quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite) The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.necessitation
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* (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).necessity
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- Love and compassion are necessities , not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
- I stopped, and said with inly muttered voice,
- 'It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold:
- This neither is its courage nor its choice,
- But its necessity in being old.