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  • 1Necessary and sufficient condition — This article is about the formal terminology in logic. For causal meanings of the terms, see Causality. In logic, the words necessity and sufficiency refer to the implicational relationships between statements. The assertion that one statement is …

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  • 2necessary and sufficient conditions — See condition, necessary/sufficient …

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  • 3necessary and sufficient condition — condition that without which nothing will happen and upon whose fulfillment there is no need for any other conditions (Logic) …

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  • 4Necessary — may refer to: Something that is a required condition for something else to be the case, see necessary and sufficient condition. A necessary truth, something that cannot fail to be true, see logical possibility. An important task or essential… …

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  • 5Socrates and the beginnings of moral philosophy — Hugh H.Benson INTRODUCTION Cicero in Tusculan Disputations famously tells us that Socrates first called philosophy down from the sky, set it in cities and even introduced it into homes, and compelled it to consider life and morals, good and evil …

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  • 6If and only if — Iff redirects here. For other uses, see IFF (disambiguation). ↔ ⇔ ≡ Logical symbols representing iff. In logic and related fields such as mathematics and philosophy, if and only if (shortened iff) is a biconditional logical connective between… …

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  • 7Leibniz: truth, knowledge and metaphysics — Nicholas Jolley Leibniz is in important respects the exception among the great philosophers of the seventeenth century. The major thinkers of the period characteristically proclaim the need to reject the philosophical tradition; in their… …

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  • 8Necessary But Not Sufficient (novel) — Necessary But Not Sufficient is a 2000 novel authored by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt and co authors Eli Schrangenheim and Carol A. Ptak and published by the North River Press, which has previously published most of Goldratt s works. Necessary but not… …

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  • 9State and Church — • The Church and the State are both perfect societies, that is to say, each essentially aiming at a common good commensurate with the need of mankind at large and ultimate in a generic kind of life, and each juridically competent to provide all… …

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  • 10G 1/05 and G 1/06 — are decisions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) of the European Patent Office (EPO) that were issued on 28 June 2007 and answer questions relating to divisional applications under the European Patent Convention (EPC). Background Article 76(1) …

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