Two weeks ago, House Republicans released their big budget proposal, selling it to credulous pundits as a statement of necessity, not ideology — a document telling America What Must Be Done.
According to this theory, statements of necessity can be made a priori because they are merely by-products of our own rules for the use of language.
The statements of necessity associated with rigid designation are interesting from an epistemological standpoint, as I have stressed.
The subjunctive mood, according to "Garner's Modern American Usage," describes any sentence with conditions contrary to fact, including suppositions (if I were taller) and wishes (I wish I were taller), as well as demands (I demand he go now), suggestions (I suggest he go now) or statements of necessity (It's crucial he go now).
Genentech requires doctors who want to prescribe its new asthma drug, Xolair, to fill out a statement of medical necessity for each patient and to test the patient to make sure the condition is one that can be treated by the drug.
Logan and Johnston (2007) spoke highly of Kuo's work: "Kuo was the first empirically supported statement of the necessity of transcending the separation between nature and nurture in order to understand behavior".
A statement of the military necessity for the position.
But suppose we change the notion of laws from universal statements of nomic necessity to phenomenological regularities (e.g., Cartwright 1999; Dupré 1993)?
We can no longer afford its inefficiencies, profiteering, and disingenuous statements of its necessity.
When officials of the War Department received DeWitt's report in early 1942, they ordered him to excise the racist overtones and to add statements of military necessity.
With each statement, the necessity of the information needed was measured on a rating scale from 0 (completely unnecessary) to 10 (absolutely necessary).
