necessitation
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This inner necessitation is so little a defect that its direct opposite, undetermined choice and inconstancy, must rather be excluded from God as an imperfection.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
For this reason the determination we are concerned with is not a necessitation.
From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by E.M. Huggard
And Barrow enumerates among natural modes of being and operation far above our reach, “God’s eternity without succession,” coupling it with “His prescience without necessitation of events.”
From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Henry Longueville Mansel
But all duty is necessitation or constraint, although it may be self-constraint according to a law.
From The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott
Secondly, the determination of the will is an inner necessitation, grounded in the being's own nature, not an external compulsion.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
