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.
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".
But suppose we change the notion of laws from universal statements of nomic necessity to phenomenological regularities (e.g., Cartwright 1999; Dupré 1993)?
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.
Many regard this sentence as necessarily true and revealing of a theoretical essence of Cicero: roughly, a theoretically interesting property possessed by Cicero in all possible worlds and never possessed by anyone else.[10] In order for any identity statement to be true of necessity, both designators must be rigid if either is.
With each statement, the necessity of the information needed was measured on a rating scale from 0 (completely unnecessary) to 10 (absolutely necessary).
The nakedness of the décor was partly a political statement and partly born out of necessity.
A lot of the protesters living down here seem more concerned with pragmatic day-to-day operational stuff than sweeping political statements, which is probably out of necessity – whether or not a makeshift camp is going to cause the collapse of capitalism, you still have to take care of food and trash and make sure no one dies.
