"I think that there are different views about the sort of degree of necessity or not of a legally binding agreement," Mr. Stern said.
Such knowledge appeared to be wholly independent of perception, having achieved a degree of necessity and universality that was unattainable by merely empirical methods.
The current deal could mean that Boehner has agreed – out of some degree of necessity, it seems – to accede to the Tea Party desire to continue to wage a shutdown fight over Obamacare, in exchange for averting a default.
Similarly, a truth's degree of necessity is measured by the distance from actuality to the closest worlds where it is false.
A 2009 Public Agenda study found most Americans agree that a college degree is necessity to enter the workforce and the middle class.
Thus, degrees of possibility (as well as degrees of necessity) are not truth functional either.
The crimes depicted herein are the consequence not of avarice, but of varying degrees of necessity, desperation and sheer rage at a system that has sidelined their perpetrators.
People want these sorts of order with different degrees of necessity, secure them with different kinds of success, and, when they don't succeed, react to failure with different degrees of despair and disengagement.
These enclaves are the result of forces far more complex than those that produced black-white segregation in the past -- forces that include not only discrimination but also varying degrees of necessity, personal preference and the immigration process itself.
Gewirth (1986) identified an essential criterion for such priority as the degrees of necessity for action.
The approaches officially suggested by policymakers in recent years recognise, to different degrees, the necessity of accounting for ILUC in biofuel support policies.
