voluntarism
noun
any theory that regards will as the fundamental agency or principle, in metaphysics, epistemology, or psychology.
voluntarist
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a word derived from
voluntarism.
Example Sentences
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The Fisk workshops emphasized voluntarist remedies, such as black church programs and promoting home ownership among working-class blacks.
From Time Magazine Archive
You cannot be an occasionalist without being a voluntarist, and every voluntarist has taken at least the first step on the road to occasionalism.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
There is, on the other hand, no perception and no idea which is not, or better, ought not to be for the voluntarist a means, an aim, a tool, an end, an ideal.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
But that the will to believe was capable of being generalized into a voluntarist theory of all knowledge was soon shown in Dr. Schiller's Axioms as Postulates.
From Pragmatism by D. L. Murray
In fact, for a voluntarist like Schopenhauer, a theory so sanely and cautiously empirical and rational as that of Darwin left out of account the inward force, the essential motive, of evolution.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
