necessity

in logic, property of a statement which must be true in order for another given statement to be true
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necessity

Summary

necessity is a philosophical concept[1]. necessity draws 201 Wikipedia views per month (philosophical_concept category, ranking #167 of 256).[2]

Key Facts

  • necessity's instance of is recorded as philosophical concept[3].
  • necessity's instance of is recorded as relative quality[4].
  • necessity's instance of is recorded as alethic modality[5].
  • necessity is a type of dependency[6].
  • necessity is part of necessity and sufficiency[7].
  • necessity's Commons category is recorded as Necessity[8].
  • necessity is the opposite of sufficiency[9].
  • necessity's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Necessity[10].
  • necessity's equivalent class is recorded as http://www.ontospace.uni-bremen.de/ontology/stable/GUM-3.owl#Necessity[11].
  • necessity's different from is recorded as prerequisite[12].

Body

Geography

necessity is part of necessity and sufficiency[7].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include philosophical concept[3], relative quality[4], and alethic modality[5].

Why It Matters

necessity draws 201 Wikipedia views per month (philosophical_concept category, ranking #167 of 256).[2] necessity has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] necessity is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6d ago · Infovarius · 2026-09-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of philosophical concept, relative quality, alethic modality
    Commons category Necessity
    Topic's main category Category:Necessity
    Subclass of dependency
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||2 */ Moving [[Property:P279]] to [[Property:P31]]"
  2. 8d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class http://www.ontospace.uni-bremen.de/ontology/stable/GUM-3.owl
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1709]]: http://www.ontospace.uni-bremen.de/ontology/stable/GUM-3.owl#Necessity"
  3. 14w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id 0316608-nutnost-filozofie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0316608-nutnost-filozofie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  4. 18w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of philosophical concept, relative quality, alethic modality
    Opposite of sufficiency
    Part of necessity and sufficiency
    Part of
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 7678, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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