necessary

mastery
UK /ˈnɛs.ə.sɹi/ US /ˈnɛs.əˌsɛ.ɹi/adjnounname

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Which meaning of 'necessary' best matches the sentence?

Although I wished to think that all was false, it was yet necessary that I, who thus thought, must in some sense exist.