Sentence examples for universal necessary from inspiring English sources

Re "One Runner's Suffering Is Another's Inspiration" (Personal Best, May 17): The question posted at the beginning of the article, "Do we run because we like the pain?" implies that pain is a universal, necessary experience for runners.

Hence, philosophers' search for biological laws of nature, characterized as universal, necessary generalizations, has ceased.

But nothing that is the mode of a particular, contingent and finite mind can be universal, necessary or infinite.

What we know, indeed what we know in the most important instances of knowledge, is universal, necessary, and infinite, as in the case of certain mathematical knowledge.

In Kant's conception, it is the fact that the transcendental unity of apperception is generated by a priori synthesis that allows it to yield an ordering that is universal, necessary, and objectively valid.

Therefore, we are left with a whole bundle of questions concerning the nature and characteristics of universals, questions that cannot be left unanswered if we want to know how universal, necessary knowledge is possible, if at all.

Kant combined a skepticism toward metaphysical knowledge with the contention that certain universal and necessary conditions are involved in having experience and describing it.

Kant argues that a "propensity to evil" is universal, "subjectively necessary", "woven into human nature" – and yet, he insists, it remains our own responsibility since it lies in our freedom.

In this approach, certain types of art and emotion — namely those deemed challenging or dark — are more worthy of attention than others every bit as universal and necessary but better described as fun or bright.

Categories deal with what is universal and necessary (A.Intro12).

The challenge Kant issues is to explain why, under normal conditions, the ordering in question is universal and necessary.