The friendship analogy suggests, then, that acting spontaneously on first-order natural inclinations is not always necessary for an act to count as an act of gratitude.
Ewing and his defenders always insisted that the guerrilla war had been uniquely cruel, and that General Order No. 11 had been a necessary measure – "an act of wisdom, courage, and humanity," in Schofield's words — to suppress the bushwhackers.
We would also, presumably, need to amend presupposition 5, so that it was not the lack of a necessary condition for an act which was problematical, but the existence of a condition which was sufficient for the non-performance of the act.
God's dominium has six aspects, three identifiable with lordship's ruling element (creation, sustenance, and governance), and three that define lordship's proprietary nature (giving, receiving, and lending) (De Dominio Divino III, ch. 1, p.198.9 .7 The necessary precondition for an act of dominium is creation, of which no created being is capable.
It is necessary to commit an act of doublethink to even try.
If necessary, an ombudsman can act as a mediator or perform shuttle diplomacy to help resolve a dispute.
There are the giant, unknowable halibut that he subdues with a hammer — a necessary act, but one from which he takes more pleasure than he should, an "inclination of which I am ashamed," Vann writes, in Roy's voice.
Whereas judgment internalism states a necessary condition on being a judgment of a certain kind, existence internalism states a necessary condition on being an act or state or consideration of a certain normative kind.
Even if they admitted that it was a far from ideal strategy, many I spoke to defended the government's actions as a necessary act of deterrence, an effective show of strength.
Was such an act necessary or indefensible?
