Necessity
Small navies have often struggled amongst themselves for command of the sea, and large ones have been known to use flotillas of small ships to do the same on rivers, lakes, inland waters and coastal seas.
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That was my choice. I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life without her, just looking at her from a distance. I needed and wanted to be right next to her, holding her hand, whispering how much I loved her into her skin until my love became a part of her, a necessity she couldn’t do without.
I wanted to be her air, her heart. I wanted everything I didn’t deserve to have.
But was that the best thing for her?
Was I the best thing?
Unfortunately, I knew I wasn’t, but that didn’t change the fact that I would try to be.
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güzel tavsiye:°°What we want is just a rest.°°
" Rest and a complete change, " said George. " The overstrain upon our brains has produced a general depression throughout the system. Change of scene, and absence of the necessity for though, will restore the mental equilibrium.
Oh, tell me,who was it first announced, who was it first proclaimed, that man only does nasty things because he does not know his own interests; and that if he were enlightened, if his eyes were opened to his real normal interests, man would at once cease to do nasty things, would at once become good and noble because, being enlightened and understanding his real advantage, he would see his own advantage in the good and nothing else, and we all know that not one man can, consciously, act against his own interests, consequently, so to say, through necessity, he would begin doing good? Oh, the babe! Oh, the pure, innocent child! Why, in the first place,when in all these thousands of years has there been a time when man has acted only from his own interest? What is to be done with the millions of facts that bear witness that men, CONSCIOUSLY, that is fully understanding their real interests, have left them in the background and have rushed headlong on another path, to meet peril and danger, compelled to this course by nobody and by nothing, but, as it were, simply disliking the beaten track, and have obstinately, wilfully, struck out another difficult,absurd way, seeking it almost in the darkness.
What do we mean by necessity and contingency? Philosophers have different ways of conceptualizing these two options. By necessity, they may mean that something is strictly entailed, that it has to be the case, or that it is true in all possible worlds. By contingent, they may mean something that could be true or not, that it might be the case, or that it is true in some but not all possible worlds. It may be thought necessary that 2 + 2 = 4 but contingent that Oslo is the capital of Norway. Norway could, in theory, have chosen Tromsø as their capital city, but there is no possibility at all that 2 + 2 could not have equalled 4.
Sceptics and Ordinary Life
In their ordinary lives sceptics find themselves under the humiliating necessity of imitating the behaviour of the same simple dogmatists to whom they feel theoretically superior. Sceptics may be giants in argument, but ordinary life cuts them down to size.
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