necessity

As contrasted with contingency, in logic, the property whereby a statement must be either true or false, this depending on the correct use of language in framing the statement. The statement "this leaf of paper has two sides" is a necessary truth since if it had either more or less than two sides it would not be a leaf according to the normal usage of the term.

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