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How much does it cost me to make non-necessary trips?
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The non-necessary parts of the bill relate to Parliamentary control over the new treaty amendment procedures brought in at Lisbon - in fact they're politically necessary, though legally dispensable.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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She had them list all of their purchases for a week and find out how much of that was non-necessary.
Piggy Bank Project Tim Hartman - Cameroon 2008
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She had them list all of their purchases for a week and find out how much of that was non-necessary.
Archive 2008-12-01 Tim Hartman - Cameroon 2008
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The potencies of non-necessary features of being do not exclude contrary potencies.
Medieval Theories of Modality Knuuttila, Simo 2008
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How much does it cost me to make non-necessary trips?
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Though possibilities necessarily are what they are, the actualization of non-necessary possibilities are contingent.
Medieval Theories of Modality Knuuttila, Simo 2008
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An emotion towards that which we conceive as necessary is, when other conditions are equal, more intense than an emotion towards that which possible, or contingent, or non-necessary.
The Ethics 2007
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Our Nebenkosten even includes the non-necessary cable.
Archive 2007-03-01 C N Heidelberg 2007
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A later view of pleasure is found in Aristotle, who agrees with Plato in many points, e.g. in his view of pleasure as a restoration to nature, in his distinction between bodily and mental, between necessary and non-necessary pleasures.
Philebus 2006
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