History is intelligible, they believed, in the sense that historians make it so; moreover, this was the only type of intelligibility it was either necessary or legitimate to demand.
Davidson questioned both steps of Dummett's argument; while regularity of use usually makes communication easier there is, according to him, no regularity such that, on every particular occasion, accordance with it would be either necessary or sufficient for successful communication (cf. Davidson 1986).
"Strip searches cannot be carried out simply as a matter of routine police department policy applicable to all arrests," Bourque wrote, and noted that it must be either necessary to uncover evidence, or to discover weapons on the person's body.
Time, like God, is either necessary or nothing; if it disappears in one possible universe, it is undermined in every possible universe, including our own.
But it is not clear that this is either necessary or desirable.
It is unlikely that such a big stimulus will be either necessary or feasible this time: inflation is too high and the debts from the previous stimulus too big.
Views about the presence of asylum seekers and other migrants in the UK are polarised, but it's hard to believe that anyone would find this kind of treatment either necessary or acceptable.
Hence it is not the case — as is sometimes assumed — that for Diodorus, every proposition is either necessary (and possible) or impossible (and non-necessary).
Rightwing politics tends to see social hierarchy as either necessary or desirable and inequality as inevitable.
The British public, like their American counterparts, remains unconvinced that bailing out banks was either necessary or desirable.
