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Necessitarian

noun
1.
Someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will.





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"Necessitarian" Quotes from Famous Books



... more than either repeat his ideas, or present his evidence under a new form. Tillotson argues at great length, but it would be rather difficult to understand which side of the question he adopts on this momentous subject; whether he is a Necessitarian, or among the opposers of Fatalism. Speaking of man, he says, "he is liable to many evils and miseries, which he can neither prevent or redress; he is full of wants, which he cannot supply, and compassed ...
— The System of Nature, Vol. 2 • Baron D'Holbach
... firm free-will of one or both of the twins, which had triumphed over natural tendencies; and yet a large proportion of my correspondents happen to be clergymen, whose bent of mind is opposed, as I feel assured from the tone of their letters, to a necessitarian view ...
— Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development • Francis Galton


Words linked to "Necessitarian" :   determinist, Genevan, fatalist, libertarian, predestinarian, philosopher, Calvinist, predestinationist


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