Sentence examples for universal necessity from inspiring English sources

Pragmatists can have principles but not self-verifying ones; they renounce any certainties that are based on claims of universal necessity.

GEM is compatible with the former possibility, and ÃGEM makes it into a universal necessity.

But fear of a digital divide has convinced some people that Internet technologies will actually reach consumers faster if the government proclaims them a universal necessity.

Kames, accepting the concept of history, natural and human, as the gradual realisation of a divine plan, believed in universal necessity.

For example, by 1892, in his The Monist paper entitled "The Doctrine of Necessity Examined," he had come to consider as false Kant's understanding of the crucial category of causation: "I believe I have thus subjected to fair examination all the important reasons for adhering to the theory of universal necessity, and have shown their nullity" (CP, 6.65).

According to this interpretation, if God limits himself by creating both a contingent future and a human faculty of acting in accordance with universal necessity (or of not acting at all), this amounts to a sort of freedom, since we can decide whether or not to attune our practical activities to the Intellect which reflects the order of reality (Ramberti, 80 81).

In the folk field, the minor arts can hardly be called minor, for such universal necessities as pottery, textiles, costume, and furniture and more unusual forms such as weather vanes and scarecrows provided the most frequent opportunities for creative expression and often absorbed the aesthetic impetus that, in the sophisticated world, was associated more with the fine arts.

If that is all Spinoza intended to say about the modal status of finite modes, then perhaps his fiery denials of contingency should be read as affirmations of universal hypothetical necessity (sometimes called "mere determinism"), and not universal absolute necessity.

We should value our public toilets because they meet an unavoidable and universal biological necessity; because they can be architectural marvels, like Rothesay's, or the ones in Leith police station, as described to me by a detective on a train, that had copper piping and glass cisterns for goldfish to swim in.

Such a suspension apparently grants to the will a sort of negative freedom, which seems to escape the universal chain of necessity.

But, as in the case of universal validity, the necessity is not based on concepts or rules (at least, not concepts or rules that are determinate, that is, of a kind which figure in cognition; as noted earlier in this section, Kant describes it, in the Antinomy of Taste, as resting on an "indeterminate concept").