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n. - The quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without.

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  • A third way of looking at a hitter's indispensability is to look at the percentage of his team's runs he's driven in during the games he's played.
  • Much of the discussion in this area has focused on so-called indispensability arguments.
  • It might shake up thesepeople who believe in their own natural born superiority and their "indispensability" in the schemeof things.
  • For variants of the Quinean indispensability argument see Maddy
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