Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrine that the action of the will is a necessary effect of antecedent causes; the theory that the will is subject to the general mechanical law of cause and effect. Also
necessitarianism , and rarely necessism.
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- noun The doctrine of philosophical necessity; necessitarianism.
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- noun philosophy, metaphysics, theology An
extreme form ofdeterminism that holds that allphenomena , including thewill , are subject toimmutable rules of cause and effect;necessitarianism .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is argued that necessarianism or determinism in any form is in conflict with the chief moral notions and convictions of mankind at large.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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The derivatives, necessitation and necessarianism, in their philosophical signification express the doctrine that the will in all its activity is invariably determined by physical or psychical antecedent conditions (see DETERMINISM; FREE WILL).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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In particular, he attacked the notion of "constraint" suggested in the words necessity and necessarianism, whereas only sequence is affirmed.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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In Leibniz, the prominence given to the principle of sufficient reason, the doctrine that man must choose that which the intellect judges as the better, and the optimistic theory that God Himself has inevitably chosen the present as being the best of all possible worlds, these views, when logically reasoned out, leave very little reality to free will, though Leibniz set himself in marked opposition to the monistic geometrical necessarianism of Spinoza.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Martineau, like the rest of his generation, was brought up in this necessarianism; but its tendency, as he reviewed and tested it, was to do violence to certain irrepressible factors of the spiritual life.
Unitarianism W.G. Tarrant 1890
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Connection of necessarianism with humanity in punishment 181
Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. John Morley 1880
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His answer to some objections against necessarianism 181
Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. John Morley 1880
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The writer then justly connects his scientific necessarianism in philosophy with humanity in punishment.
Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. John Morley 1880
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As to Godwin's necessarianism, it is perhaps hardly worth while to cite passages in order to explain it.
More Pages from a Journal Mark Rutherford 1872
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Never before in France had materialism, necessarianism and atheism been so clearly and forcibly expounded.
whichbe commented on the word necessarianism
Theory that actions are determined by prior history; fatalism. (from Phrontistery)
May 24, 2008