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Varieties of Social Necessity

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|Mar 2026

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(1)Most people socially classed as women at the transit station on Monday at 7:30 AM boarded the train to Providence.
(2)Most people socially classed as women in a heteronormative society occupy subordinate social positions on the basis of assumptions about physical sex and biological roles in reproduction.8
(3)An increase in supply while demand remains fixed will cause a decline in price.
(4)The proletariat own their labor yet are forced to sell their labor while being excluded from other productive forces.
(5)Anyone who commits an atrocity – e.g., genocide, torture, etc. – against humanity in an act of war is a war criminal.
(6)To be impoverished is to have unstable access to healthcare.
(N1)All social necessities are metaphysically necessary.
(N2)A claim about social reality, p, is a social necessity just in case, for some set of (basic) social claims S, it is metaphysically necessary that if S, then p.
(2)Most people socially classed as women in a heteronormative society occupy subordinate social positions on the basis of assumptions about physical sex and biological roles in reproduction.
(7)There is no ethical production, nor consumption, in a capitalist economic system where all productive forces are privately owned and exchanged in a free market.
(8)Gender is essentially socially constructed.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/met.247 | Journal eISSN: 2515-8279
Language: English
Page range: 1 - 21
Submitted on: Jun 29, 2025
Accepted on: Jan 22, 2026
Published on: Mar 5, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

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