# What does "necessarily" mean to you?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-necessarily-mean-to-you/603776
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 22, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-necessarily-mean-to-you/603776 "2011-11-22T18:19:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-necessarily-mean-to-you/603776/21 "2011-11-23T00:42:28Z")
> [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](#):
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> I’ve never heard of neccessarily to mean definitely. I couldn’t answer your poll. I think it’s the question that’s flawed.
Meh… they’re not synonymous, and I never said they were. But they’re definitely in the same conceptual ballpark. What is necessarily true is definitely true. What must necessarily be done must definitely be done. Etc…
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### Author:  [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-necessarily-mean-to-you/603776/22 "2011-11-23T00:56:13Z")
> [@sundog66](#):
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> For me, “necessarily” induces universal quantification over possible worlds. YMMV.
Yeah, I tried that.
Once.
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