necessitarianism
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Origin of necessitarianism
First recorded in 1850–55; necessitarian + -ism
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There is, we must confess, a good deal of such sophistry to-day in the use of arguments drawn from the current philosophy of necessitarianism and the idea of heredity.
From St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. I A Practical Exposition by Charles Gore
His necessitarianism is modern, his scepticism is modern, and the difficulties in which it arises are modern too.
From The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker
It is opposed to the various doctrines of Free-Will, known as voluntarism, libertarianism, indeterminism, and is from the ethical standpoint more or less akin to necessitarianism and fatalism.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various
Abelard's necessitarianism and Gilbert's Spinozism, if Bernard understood them right, were equally impossible theology, and the Church could by no evasion escape the necessity of condemning both.
From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams
But the political reconstruction which he proposes is too much determined by this old nightmare of necessitarianism.
From What I Saw in America by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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