What is "necessary condition"

Usage examples of "necessary condition".

For such an interplay of light and darkness, the existence of the air was seen to be a necessary condition, representing in the one case a lightening, in the other, a darkening element.

The cells evolved into an organism and in the evolution created what was once a necessary condition of mind.

The delivery is a necessary condition to the promisor's doing the kindness, and if he does it, the delivery, so far from being a detriment to the promisee, is a clear benefit to him.

At first there were frequent stops, but on the whole satisfactory progress was made, and as even a small measure of success would, in Scott's opinion, be enough to show their ability to revolutionize Polar transport, and so help to prevent the cruelty that is a necessary condition of animal transport, he was intensely anxious about the result of this trial trip.

Do you think that such a retirement into the inner consciousness is a necessary condition for maintaining the body ?

For this reason we take a real existence (of any experience whatever), and conclude from it, as well as may be, some absolutely necessary condition of it.

Hence an infinite past series of worlds is impossible, and the beginning of the world a necessary condition of its existence.

That pure Activity (or pure Witness), according to Fichte, is the ground and necessary condition for the manifestation of any objects at all, and as such, there is precisely nothing individual and finite about it: it is infinite, absolute, supra-individual.

I give full credit to Zoroaster for showing mankind not only the oneness of deity but that simultaneous duality which is a necessary condition of true deity.

This most obvious necessary condition of things, without which no administration can succeed, we and the public believe does not now exist .

Riches were for her, so to speak, a necessary condition of virtue, failing which virtue itself would lack both merit and charm.