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necessary condition

  1. Logic an antecedent whose denial entails the denial of the consequent
  2. something that must exist or occur if something else is to exist or occur

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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