Necessity – A Necessary Clarification

The words necessity, necessary, and necessarily appear frequently in the posts on this site, primarily in reference to the Structure of Being, rather than in their common everyday usage. Typically, necessity is understood as something required by circumstances, causes, or logical conditions—something that must happen due to external constraints. This interpretation remains bound to the framework of becoming, where things emerge, change, and cease according to contingent factors.

However, within the Structure of Being, necessity does not refer to compulsion, causality, or inevitability within time. Rather, it signifies the eternal and indestructible nature of being. What is, is necessarily—not because it is forced to be, but because it cannot not be. It does not “become necessary”; it is necessity itself.

This is why becoming and contingency—the notions that things could be otherwise, or that they come into and go out of existence—are contradictions. The recognition of necessity reveals that all being is eternal; it does not depend on external conditions but simply is, in its fullness, beyond all change or negation.

Examples of Usage in This Context

• “Being is necessarily itself—it does not arise from nothing, nor can it vanish into nothingness.”
• “The recognition of necessity dissolves the contradictions of materialism and idealism, both of which assume becoming.”
• “What appears to be change is not the becoming of one thing into another, but the necessary appearing and withdrawing of eternal being.”

Thus, when we speak of necessity, we are not referring to an imposed constraint, but to the very structure of reality: the immutable, undeniable truth that every being is eternally itself.