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- noun Plural form of
necessitarian .
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Examples
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The necessitarians have here carefully chosen the one example of something that is certainly not necessary, whatever else is necessary.
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Another incon - testable argument against deterministic mechanics was, in his view, the incapability of the necessitarians to prove their contention empirically by observation or measurement.
INDETERMINACY IN PHYSICS MAX JAMMER 1968
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Let the necessitarians argue as they may, freedom of will and action is the possession of every man and woman.
How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Major A.R. Calhoon
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Hence, the necessitarians tell us that evil arises out of the nature and constitution of things; and that the
Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898
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This treatise was composed to justify, on philosophical grounds, the Calvinistic doctrines of fore-ordination and election by grace, though its arguments are curiously coincident with those of the scientific necessitarians, whose conclusions are as far asunder from Edwards's "as from the center thrice to the utmost pole."
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This treatise was composed to justify, on philosophical grounds, the Calvinistic doctrines of foreordination and election by grace, though its arguments are curiously coincident with those of the scientific necessitarians, whose conclusions are as far asunder from
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Let the necessitarians argue as they may, freedom of will and action is the possession of every man and woman.
Character Samuel Smiles 1858
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But something far more than this is maintained by most necessitarians, and seems to be logically implied in the doctrine.
Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator. 1823-1886 1855
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Nowhere, it is believed, can a more striking illustration of the truth of these pregnant words be found, than in the method adopted by necessitarians.
A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Albert Taylor Bledsoe 1843
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They are not only at war with other necessitarians, they are also at war with themselves.
A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Albert Taylor Bledsoe 1843
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