historical necessity

collocation in English

meaningsofhistoricalandnecessity

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historical
adjective
uk
/hɪˈstɒr.ɪ.kəl/us
/hɪˈstɔːr.ɪ.kəl/
connected with studying or representing things from ...
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necessity
noun
uk
/nəˈses.ə.ti/us
/nəˈses.ə.t̬i/
the need ...
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(Definition ofhistoricalandnecessityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Only in retrospect did another view dawn on him - one that could reconcile his most unreconciled ending ashistoricalnecessity.
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Finally, he believes that historians must avoid the trap of explanations based upon implicit assumptions ofhistoricalnecessity.
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In each case, there was nohistoricalnecessityor inevitability about that design.
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Finally, we examine four specific guidelines in terms of social andhistoricalnecessity, political affiliation, content, and possible limitations specific to each guideline.
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Confronted with the wealth of historical alternatives, it becomes exceedingly difficult to see any one of them as necessary, be it physical, transcendental, orhistoricalnecessity.
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A thing or a person is an end in itself, not a means to something else; "historicalnecessity" destroys the dignity of the free individual as much as superstitious religion.
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For the euro, because thehistoricalnecessityis obvious to us.
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Once a matter ofhistoricalnecessity, it is an idea that has served its purpose.
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The central theme of the book is thehistoricalnecessityof revolution, and the impossibility of preventing it.
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Different nations and different systems' existence can be explained mainly because of thishistoricalnecessity.
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For them, human activity was still subject to certain types of social arrangements that followed ahistoricalnecessity.
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Mou's political philosophy is more clearly showed as he discusses thehistoricalnecessitythat follows the particularity of human beings.
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We were realizinghistoricalnecessity.
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However,historicalnecessityseparates the lovers.
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