A necessary condition only activates with other autonomous conditions

Evidence

But it must be clear that this allowance insists on a strict definition of necessary condition, namely, that the potentiality of that condition can, by definition, never be materialized without the presence of other, autonomous conditions that make a dormant potential active. Said, we have seen, insisted on the “formal” beginnings of Orientalism in the Council of Vienna, and in the same vein argued that Orientalism “is a structure inherited from the past, secularized, redisposed, and re-formed by such disciplines as philology, which in turn were naturalized, modernized, and laicized substitutes for (or versions of) Christian supernaturalism” (122). — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 688

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘necessary condition’ strictly: a dormant potential that requires other autonomous conditions to be actualized.
• XREF: connects to: Co-optive indirect rule survives only while center support and local insulation both hold — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1239