Necessitation

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Necessity, understood as a logical or other philosophical principle, or as a law or force of nature.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of necessitating or making necessary; the state of being made necessary; compulsion. Hobbes, Liberty and Necessity.
  • Word Usage
    "This is the principle stating that, if a formula A is logically valid, i.e., a logical truth, then its necessitation, that is, the formula obtained by prefixing to it a box or necessity operator, is logically valid, too."