necessitation

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Necessity, understood as a logical or other philosophical principle, or as a law or force of nature.

   “Moral obligation is not necessitation. The moral law commands but does not coerce us.”

   “The voluntary actions of men are now seen to claim an equal freedom from the necessitation of natural causes.”

   “Determinism is an example: it alleges that all the seeming irregularities and spontaneities in the world are haunted by an omnipresent system of strict necessitation.”

   “In virtue of their contents, psychological states stand in logical relations like incompatibility, material implication, and conceptual necessitation.”