False necessity, or anti-necessitarian social theory, is a contemporary social theory that argues for the plasticity of social organizations and their...

In logic and mathematics, necessity and sufficiency are terms used to describe a conditional or implicational relationship between two statements. For...

unpredictable events in place of deterministic necessity. Rational choice theory, symbolic interactionism, false necessity are examples of more recent developments...

of human life and society. Politics was published in three volumes: False Necessity: Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy...

is a key component in Unger's theory of false necessity and formative context. The theory of false necessity claims that social worlds are the artifact...

In psychology, a false memory is a phenomenon where someone recalls something that did not actually happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually...

come to see the existing arrangements as necessary. Unger calls this false necessity. In reality, these arrangements are arbitrary and hold together rather...

address this problem of agency in relation to structure. In his work on false necessity – or anti-necessitarian social theory – Unger recognizes the constraints...

A false equivalence or false equivalency is an informal fallacy in which an equivalence is drawn between two subjects based on flawed or false reasoning...

obviously false (contradiction) Metaphysical necessity, in philosophy, a truth which is true in all possible worlds Necessity in modal logic Necessity good...

concept is in Unger's book False Necessity. The thesis of formative context is central to Unger's theory of false necessity, which rejects the idea of...

statements are true. Contingency is one of three basic modes alongside necessity and possibility. In modal logic, a contingent statement stands in the...

Perjury (also known as foreswearing) is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in...

False evidence, fabricated evidence, forged evidence, fake evidence or tainted evidence is information created or obtained illegally in order to sway...

A false confession is an admission of guilt for a crime which the individual did not commit. Although such confessions seem counterintuitive, they can...

In the criminal law of many nations, necessity may be either a possible justification or an exculpation for breaking the law. Defendants seeking to rely...

used to show the alibi is false; and The court must reject all innocent explanations offered that would explain why a false alibi was fabricated. An alibi...

Modal logic is a kind of logic used to represent statements about necessity and possibility. It plays a major role in philosophy and related fields as...

recognized as not well-grounded, the conclusion as unproven (but not necessarily false), and the argument as unsound. A formal fallacy is an error in the argument's...

days travel they reached it. This was the Spindle of Necessity. Several women, including Lady Necessity, her daughters, and the Sirens were present. The souls...

fallacy is the false positive paradox (also known as accuracy paradox). This paradox describes situations where there are more false positive test results...

lab at MIT, using a false-belief versus false-photograph task contrast aimed at isolating the mentalizing component of the false-belief task, have consistently...

Society portal Politics portal False necessity Formative context Unger, Roberto Mangabeira (1987). False Necessity: Anti-necessitarian social theory...

A false dilemma, also referred to as false dichotomy or false binary, is an informal fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are...

The questionable cause—also known as causal fallacy, false cause, or non causa pro causa ("non-cause for cause" in Latin)—is a category of informal fallacies...

False imprisonment or unlawful imprisonment occurs when a person intentionally restricts another person's movement within any area without legal authority...

In computer science, false sharing is a performance-degrading usage pattern that can arise in systems with distributed, coherent caches at the size of...

fallacy, even in the inductive method, when the source of the claim is a false authority, such as when the supposed authority is not a real expert, or...

False attribution may refer to: Misattribution in general, when a quotation or work is accidentally, traditionally, or based on bad information attributed...

conclusion, but the conclusion does not follow as a matter of logical necessity. Determining the strength of the argument requires that we take into consideration...