non-necessity

Christmas scares the bejeebers outta me, spending money on a non-necessity is a big freaking deal.

#Best09: Moment of Peace « Bodhicitta 2009

Also, to further Mike's point about ID 101, and the non-necessity of identifying a designer, I would say designs can be identified independent of explicit appeal to intelligence.

Aiguy's Computer 2008

Where S5 collapses any possible necessity into a necessity and any dubious necessity into a non-necessity, it demonstrates that excluding falsifiability or excluding provability renders a hypothesis biased to the point of no longer being a hypothesis of potential truth and potential falsehood but a polar assertion of truth or falsehood.

A Response to a Response Hal Duncan 2007

So a dubious necessity collapses into a non-necessity, and in this case that means the God class.

Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007

Not gonna go on and on ranting about them because I've done all that before, but in a nutshell I feel like it's an over-hyped, over-priced, over-stuffed piece of non-necessity.

Bad Apple: An Argument Against Buying An iPhone | Lifehacker Australia 2009

Where S5 collapses any possible necessity into a necessity and any dubious necessity into a non-necessity, it demonstrates that excluding falsifiability or excluding provability renders a hypothesis biased to the point of no longer being a hypothesis of potential truth and potential falsehood but a polar assertion of truth or falsehood.

Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007

The non-necessity of prosecuting the powerful is another New York special.

Andrew Cuomo and the Incredible Industry-Wide Mortgage Fraud Investigation 2009

So a dubious necessity collapses into a non-necessity, and in this case that means the God class.

THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FOUR Hal Duncan 2007

No. Yet he offers up his hypothesis as one that is indeed testable, illustrating once again the non-necessity of the designer-centric approach.

Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It? 2006

However, it is the perceived non-necessity that will give whatever the Harry Potter is anti-Christian perspective traction.

Dead Fictional British Pagan from Another World Sets Wingnuts Frothing (Yay, Rowling!) « Lean Left 2007