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What does necessitation mean?

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  1. (philosophy) Necessity, understood as a logical or other philosophical principle, or as a law or force of nature.
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This tends to have the individual an over necessitation in the sense of their responsibility to the animal.
On the second reading, no moral necessitation is possible with regard to the choice to live, since morality first arises after the choice is made.
The voluntary actions of men are now seen to claim an equal freedom from the necessitation of natural causes.
Moral obligation is not necessitation. The moral law commands but does not coerce us.
We have no sensations resembling necessitation, and, yet, causes necessitate their effects.
Now the will's necessitation by the final end was a claim that virtually all late thirteenth-century thinkers, voluntarists and intellectualists alike, accepted.

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