causationism
noun
the doctrine or theory that every event is the result of a prior and adequate cause.
causationist
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a word derived from
causationism.
Example Sentences
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He there denies the incompatibility of free-will with causation, saying that "it is the doctrine of lawlessness, and not the causationist doctrine, which is incompatible with liberty and destructive of responsibility."
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams
