Taxonomy vs Necessitation - What's the difference?
taxonomy | necessitation |
The science or the technique used to make a classification.
A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
(taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
(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 .