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Clarke in particular had argued that we have a priori access to the eternal "fitnesses" of things through certain, abstract, and necessary quasi-mathematical arguments (Clarke 1706) that entail necessary moral obligations and duties insofar as actions accord with or fail to accord with eternal and immutable realities.
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If he has in mind the standard modal notion of entailment (\(A\) entails \(B\) just in case it is impossible for \(A\) to be true and \(B\) false), then (3) is false, for in that sense of entailment, logical truths entail all necessary truths, not just other logical truths.
Whenever I have any justification at all for believing a proposition that turns out to be necessarily true, that justification will entail the necessary truth.
This interpretation is a component of Allison's broader vision of the B-Deduction, according to which Kant demonstrates that the unity of apperception entails that we represent objects, and, conversely, that our representing objects entails the necessary unity of apperception (Allison 1983: 144ff).
Certainly the diminution of religious faith entails no necessary lowering of this expectation.
"But it is a Chapter VII mandate and I certainly repeated to them that they have to remember that protection of civilians – including protecting ourselves, actually – is the core of our mandate and it entails, if necessary, the use of force".
It's a feature of this notion that anything whatsoever entails a necessary truth p. It follows as a special case of this that any claim that a given object exists must entail p too.
Prescriptive meaning is defined in relation to imperatives: a statement is prescriptive if it entails, if necessary in conjunction with purely factual statements, at least one imperative; and to assent to an imperative is to prescribe action.
The second group entails functions "necessary to protect life or property".
As a consequence, obtaining good inference relative to the attractor structure does not necessary entail valid inference with respect to the steady-state distribution as the steady-state probabilities of attractor states depend on the basin structure [ 50, 80].
Unlike Christie, Daggett does have a specific proposal for what "necessary" entails: Daggett would eliminate the inefficient practice of issuing property-tax rebates to homeowners, and he would expand the state's sales tax to a range of services that are now untaxed.
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