In each syllogism, the premises not only logically necessitate the conclusion (i.e., the truth of the premises makes it logically impossible for the conclusion to be false) but causally explain it as well.
Many rationalists held with Spinoza that the causal relation is really a logical one that a causal law, if precisely stated, would reveal a connection in which the character of the cause logically necessitates that of its effect; and if this is true, they maintained, the facts and events of the world must thus compose a single rational and intelligible order.
So, while certain events might logically necessitate some sort of divine action and, hence, be an occasion for God to act, they are not themselves causally efficacious, according to Malebranche.
Ott offers an intriguing discussion of Malebranche's arguments for occasionalism, having argued that Malebranche held the "cognitive model of causation," which entails both that a "cause must logically necessitate its effect" and that "it must be directed at that effect by in some sense 'including' it" (14).
Now consider the essential predication, 'God is omniscient.' Given that a truthmaker of a truth t is an entity whose existence broadly logically necessitates the truth of t, God himself is plausibly viewed as the truthmaker of 'God is omniscient' and like essential predications.
In other, nonmoral, cases, some have claimed, the supervening facts are necessitated logically by the lower-order facts supervened upon together with the concepts by which the supervenient facts are identified.
An important consequence of Hegel's metaphysics, so understood, concerns history and the idea of historical development or progress, and it is as an advocate of an idea concerning the logically-necessitated teleological course of history that Hegel is most often derided.
That gap necessitated some juggling.
Their weight necessitated structural reinforcement.
My excitement just necessitated it.
The economy has necessitated that.
