No longer a mere necessity for human survival, water has become an object of international financial speculation and experts predict that "blue gold" will soon become the most important physical commodity worldwide, dwarfing oil and precious metals.
Still, Clarke thinks that we should affirm with some of the early church fathers that this derivation of the Son from the Father is "not by mere Necessity of Nature, (which would be in reality Self-existence, not Filiation;) But by an Act of the Father's incomprehensible Power and Will" (141, original emphases).
Similarities to that publication are a mere necessity for ensuring autonomy of this work.
Get the bare necessities.
It's a lesson clearly learned from Twitter, whose own 140-character limit initially began as a mere technical necessity – to allow for the message, a 23-character username, a colon and a space to fit in one 165-character SMS message – but soon grew into something else entirely.
An omnipotent agent has the power to overrule (or supersede) any law of nature (a mere physical necessity).
Erdmann is also taken to task for his suggestion that logical laws might have mere 'hypothetical necessity', that is, that they are relative to the human species.
It is widely acknowledged that it would be too weak to formulate physicalism as the claim that as a matter of mere nomological necessity, everything globally supervenes on the physical.
If that is all Spinoza intended to say about the modal status of finite modes, then perhaps his fiery denials of contingency should be read as affirmations of universal hypothetical necessity (sometimes called "mere determinism"), and not universal absolute necessity.
Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a mere stimulus to men".
