Many employees, mostly women and African Americans, do not receive enough pay for their basic necessities to exist in Charlottesville, where the cost of living is nearly 10% higher than the national average.
Fear of violence, mugging or personal attack is the other side of guilt: there is no necessity for people to exist in joyless and ugly environments of graffiti-scarred estates, shuttered shops, abandoned cars and streets swirling with rubbish; of used-up goods and discarded young people.
Melissus had argued from the logical impossibility of void to the impossibility of motion; the atomists apparently reasoned in reverse, arguing from the fact that motion exists to the necessity for void space to exist (DK 67A7).
Solidarity is a necessity, and for solidarity to exist, black history needs to exist all year as part of larger American history.
After all, this is the philosopher who claims that "in nature there is nothing contingent, but all things have been determined from the necessity of the divine nature to exist and produce an effect in a certain way" (EIp29) and that "things could have been produced by God in no other way, and in no other order than they have been produced" (EIp33).
The propensity to exist, which is necessity, is ascribed to the units of a collection, and hence to the collection itself, by something that, transcending it, is necessary in itself.
Right now the big dream is landing an apartment that has an oven and a fridge, but you would be surprised how easy it is to exist without these supposed necessities.
If it is impossible that God exists — as all who deny that God exists suppose, on the further assumption that, were God to exist, God would exist of necessity — then it cannot be true both that the God-properties are closed under entailment and that there are properties that are not God-properties.
As Kenny points out, Aquinas understands this necessity in terms of being unable to cease to exist (Kenny, 48).
The bacterium requires moisture to exist, so continuous moisture is a necessity for the transfer of the microorganism from one person to another.
