A phrase the is quite common in "analytical" philosophy. It has overlapping common ground with what the Usuli term "Jam3i Man3i" i.e. a term that is defined in a totally inclusive and exhaustive way. We have to be careful and this entry in the Stanford encyclopedia of Philosophy helps understand the "modest" nature of this enterprise.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/necessary-sufficient/
It still does help. Ok why all this? Well it seems ( and this is where I have disagreements with both Abu Ibrahim and Maajid) that the exhaustive nature of the term "appearance" (i.e. in relation to islamic law) is a necessary and insufficent condition for the term Dar Islam in some schools and at the same time in other schools it is not. We know this when we look at the dynamic changes from Dar Islam to Dar Kufr. Some schools cite the "appearance" of Kufr as a necessary and sufficient condition for the collapse of the definition and others do not. This will help inshallah with an article that I am going to write that will go through all the possiblities of the term "appearance" ( in relation to the Ahkam) for both Dar Islam and Dar Kufr
It is clear that the scholars differ (and I find this as an irrelevant point for the party anyway, when it comes to dealing with its method for change) but banners of "innovation" always leave me a bit skeptical
Truth in most cases is more nuanced.
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