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  2. Necessity and sufficiency - Wikipedia

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    For example, in the conditional statement: "If P then Q", Q is necessary for P, because the truth of Q is guaranteed by the truth of P. (Equivalently, it is impossible to have P without Q , or the falsity of Q ensures the falsity of P .) [ 1 ] Similarly, P is sufficient for Q , because P being true always implies that Q is true, but P not being ...

  3. Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia

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    Physiological needs include: Air, Water, Food, Heat, Clothes, Reproduction, Shelter [22] and Sleep. Many of these physiological needs must be met for the human body to remain in homeostasis. Air, for example, is a physiological need; a human being requires air more urgently than higher-level needs, such as a sense of social belonging.

  4. Needs assessment - Wikipedia

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    A needs assessment is a systematic process for determining and addressing needs, or "gaps", between current conditions, and desired conditions, or "wants". [1]Needs assessments can help improve policy or program decisions, individuals, education, training, organizations, communities, or products.

  5. Necessity is the mother of invention - Wikipedia

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    One of the earliest recorded instances of the proverb is in one of Aesop’s Fables, “The Crow and the Pitcher” from the mid 6th century BCE. Plato's Republic says "our need will be the real creator", [5] which Jowett's 1894 translation rendered loosely as "The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention."

  6. Need - Wikipedia

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    People also talk about the needs of a community or organisation. Such needs might include demand for a particular type of business, for a certain government program or entity, or for individuals with particular skills. This is an example of metonymy in language and presents with the logical problem of reification. Medical needs.

  7. From each according to his ability, to each according to his ...

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    All we then need to add, to get to the fundamental principle of developed communism, is to assume that non-satisfaction of a need is a disadvantage. The corresponding principle of solidarity in respect of need says: if any member of society has an unsatisfied need, each member has a duty to produce its object (if they can).

  8. Manfred Max-Neef's Fundamental human needs - Wikipedia

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    Max-Neef stressed that the set of needs described in this matrix is not absolute or complete, but simply an example that may be useful for analysis. [2] When this matrix of satisfiers is created by individuals or groups from different cultures and at different times in history, it can differ considerably.

  9. Requirement - Wikipedia

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    High-level statements of the goals, objectives, or needs of an organization. They usually describe opportunities that an organization wants to realise or problems that they want to solve. Often stated in a business case. User (stakeholder) requirements Mid-level statements of the needs of a particular stakeholder or group of stakeholders.