Russell maintains that Leibniz failed to logically show that metaphysical necessity (divine will) and human free will are not incompatible or contradictory.

As the whole of nature depends on the inspiration of the eternal unmoved movers, Aristotle was concerned to establish the metaphysical necessity of the perpetual motions of the heavens.

Alternatively, there is metaphysical necessity, which is a certainty determined, not by the meaning of a description, but instead by facts in the world described.

Its two main preoccupations are, first, that reality is (at least in part) determined by the perceiver and, second, that individual freedom must be seen in the context of metaphysical necessity.

A proposition is a metaphysical necessity if it could not have been false.

It may even be regarded as a metaphysical necessity, in that the primal unity, "eternally suffering and contradictory", likewise needs the visionary illusion for its own redemption.

The t-shirt and undies went in the first rash of hands, but I'd never tried to touch him when it wasn't a metaphysical necessity.

Here Hume tackles the problem of how liberty may be reconciled with metaphysical necessity (otherwise known as a compatibilist formulation of free will).

The creation of the Way had by some metaphysical necessity I only half understood made a singularity that ran the length of Korzenowski's pipe-shaped universe: the flaw.

He maintains that there are no interesting metaphysical necessities, and even logical and mathematical truths are not ontological necessities.