necessities

Definition of necessities in English English dictionary: plural of necessity
necessity: The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness
necessity: The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism
necessity: That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality
necessity: that which is indispensably requisite to an end desired
necessity: That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural
necessity: {n} poverty, want, distress, compulsion
bare necessities: fundamental items necessary for life, essentials (i.e. food, clothing, and protection from atmospheric conditions)
necessity: The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want
necessity: A condition of need: usually one which transcends self Most single-level 'applied-science' technologies ignore necessity, because of science's claim to be based on truth, and hence 'value-free' For magical-technologies, however, practical experience indicates that necessity is often effectively a requirement for action and, especially, usually provides otherwise-unobtainable access to other levels of reality - as illustrated by the phrase 'necessity is the mother of invention' Development of an ethical awareness is usually (but unfortunately not always) a functional requirement for increasing reliability in magical-technologies Spontaneous paranormal activity is also often linked to a context which combines extreme necessity and unavailability of other 'lower-level' mechanisms
necessity: A necessity is something that you must have in order to live properly or do something. Water is a basic necessity of life. food, fuel and other daily necessities. = essential luxury
necessity: {i} essential; indispensability; obligation; need, requirement; poverty
necessity: Genus: Thing Differentia: Required to achieve some specific end
necessity: That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; often in the plural
necessity: The necessity of something is the fact that it must happen or exist. There is agreement on the necessity of reforms Most women, like men, work from economic necessity Some people have to lead stressful lifestyles out of necessity. If you say that something is of necessity the case, you mean that it is the case because nothing else is possible or practical in the circumstances. Negotiations between the enemies are of necessity indirect
necessity: A state of affairs is necessary if it has to be the case Logical necessity is a product of the law of noncontradiction Causal necessity, it has been thought, is a different form of necessity
necessity: anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
necessity: is something that a minor does not already have an adequate supply of already, and is something necessary for the way they lead their life If the object of the contract is a necessity then the contract is binding against the minor
necessity: A situation or action that is a necessity is necessary and cannot be avoided. The President pleaded that strong rule from the centre was a regrettable, but temporary necessity. In logic and metaphysics, a modal property of a true proposition whereby it is not possible for the proposition to be false and of a false proposition whereby it is not possible for the proposition to be true. A proposition is logically necessary if it instantiates a law of logic or can be made to instantiate a law of logic through substitution of definitionally equivalent terms. Examples are "It is raining now or it is not raining now" and "All men are human beings" (assuming "men" can be replaced with "male human beings"). Necessary propositions are sometimes said to be true or false (as the case may be) in all possible worlds. A contingently true or false proposition is thus one that is true in some possible worlds and false in others (e.g., "France is a democracy"). All true logically necessary propositions are analytic (see analytic-synthetic distinction) and knowable a priori. Some philosophers recognize a second category of "metaphysically" necessary propositions that are not analytic and generally not a priori; examples include identity statements such as "Water is H2O
necessity: Something necessary or needed
necessity: the condition of being essential or indispensable