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Necessitarian  adj.  Of or pertaining to the doctrine of philosophical necessity in regard to the origin and existence of things, especially as applied to the actings or choices of the will; opposed to libertarian.





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"Necessitarian" Quotes from Famous Books



... mind at this period. As I read over the lives of these robbers and pickpockets, strange doubts began to arise in my mind about virtue and crime. Years before, when quite a boy, as in one of the early chapters I have hinted, I had been a necessitarian; I had even written an essay on crime (I have it now before me, penned in a round boyish hand), in which I attempted to prove that there is no such thing as crime or virtue, all our actions being the result of circumstances ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow
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Words linked to "Necessitarian" :   predestinationist, philosopher, predestinarian, determinist, libertarian, fatalist, Genevan


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