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What does necessitation mean?

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Noun
  1. (philosophy) Necessity, understood as a logical or other philosophical principle, or as a law or force of nature.
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On the second reading, no moral necessitation is possible with regard to the choice to live, since morality first arises after the choice is made.
An action plan to resolve the issue will by necessitation consist of several steps.
We have no sensations resembling necessitation, and, yet, causes necessitate their effects.
The voluntary actions of men are now seen to claim an equal freedom from the necessitation of natural causes.
The authors attack the common view that causation involves necessity by distinguishing between causal 'production' and necessitation.
Hence the will directs with absolute necessity and is itself subject to no necessitation.

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