Necessity And Sufficiency
In logic, necessity and sufficiency refer to the implicational relationships between statements. The assertion that one statement is a necessary and sufficient condition of another means that the former statement is true if and only if the latter is true.
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—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)