necessariness (nesesarines)

The state of being nece ary. Johnson. nece ary (nes'e-sā-ri), a. and n. [Formerly also nece ar; avoidable, inevitable, indispensable, neut. adj. dition, ens, inference, mark, etc. See the nouns. - Nece ary proposition, a proposition which a erts a fact to be nece ary; also, one which we cannot help believing. - Nece ary rules of thought, those without which no use of the understanding would be po ible. - Nece ary sign, one which affords a certain indication of the thing represented.- Nece ary to an end, preceding or accompanying the end in every po ible state of things; requisite as a means to the end. = Syn. 2. Nece ary, E ential, Requi site, Needful. The following remarks refer to the application of the words to ordinary practical affairs, not to philosophy. Nece ary is so general a word that it covers all the others, and has the additional sense, which they do not have, of inevitable. E ential is an absolute word, noting that which is a part of the chief end of the action, or of every mode of bringing that end about. Requisite is le strong than e ential, and needful is le strong still; yet each is strong and emphatic, applying to that which is imperatively needed. Needful generally applies to concrete, and often to temporary, things: as, knowledge of the countries visited is requisite, and even e ential, to enjoyment of travel, but money is needful in order to be able to travel at all. Needful is often applied to that which must be supplied to produce or effect a perfect state or action. II. n.; pl. nece aries (-riz). 1. Anything that is nece ary or indispensable; that which cannot be disregarded or omitted: as, the neces saries of life. And the i alle han alle nece aries, and alle that hem nedethe, of the Emperoures Court. Mandeville , Travels, p. 239. Fear of poverty makes Irus allow himself only plain nece aries. Steele , Spectator, No. 114. 2. A privy; a water-closet. - Nece aries -Nece aries of a ship, articles which should form part of the ordinary and reasonable oufit for the busine in which the ve el is en gaged; whatever a prudent owner would order if present. sary, + -ism.] Same as nece arianism. Con nece um, prob. orig. ne ce um or non ce um, will always yield a true conclusion, in every state of facts. In philosophy it is requisite to distinguish an irresistible inference, the force of which may be blindly felt, from a nece ary one, which is seen to belong to a po ible cla of inferences, all true. ( b ) As a proposition or fact, true or taking place not merely in the actual state of things, but in every po ible state of things (within some meaning of the word po ible). A nece ary proposition should not be confounded with an absolutely certain one, far le with one we are irresistibly compelled to believe. (c) As a thing or being, existing in every po ible state of things; having existence involved in its e ence. Thus, God is said by Anselm, Des cartes, and others to be a nece ary being. Death, a nece ary end, Will come when it will come. Shak ., J. C., ii. 2. 36. In a erting that the human mind po e es in its own ideas an element of nece ary and universal truth, not derived from experience, Kant had been anticipated by Price, by Cudworth, and even by Plato. Whewell, Philos. of Discovery. Given such a cause that is, accept the idea of God and worship follows as a rational, nay, a nece ary conseMivart, Nature and Thought, p. 230. quence. The only way that any thing that is to come to pa hereafter is or can be nece ary is by a connection with something that is nece ary in its own nature, or something that already is or has been so that, the one being supposed, the other certainly follows. Edwards, On the Will, i. 3. 2. Such that it cannot be disregarded or omitted; indispensable; requisite; e ential; needful; required: as, air is nece ary to support animal life; food is nece ary to nourish the body. Aduertisementes and counsailles verie nece arye for all noble men and counsaillors. Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 74. A nimble hand is nece ary for a cut-purse. Shak ., W. T., iv. 3. 686. A country replenished with all manner of commodities nece ary for mans life. Coryat , Crudities, I. 108. Neither dares any man complain of injustice, tho his cause be never so just: and therefore patience is in this Country as nece ary for poor people as in any part of the World. Dampier , Voyages, II. i. 78. temporary Rev. [Rare.] nece itarian (ne-ses-i-ta'ri-an), a. and n. [ libertarian. II. n. One who maintains the doctrine of philosophical nece ity, in opposition to that of the freedom of the will: opposed to libertarian , The Arm in i an has entangled the Calvin ist, the Calvin ist has entangled the Arm in i an, in a labyrinth of contradictions. The advocate of free-will appeals to conscience and instinct - to an a prior i sense of what ought in equity to be. The nece itarian falls back upon the experienced reality of facts. Froude , Calvin ism.