necessitation
Example Sentences
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Nevertheless, the character empirically manifested in the phenomenal world, while it is completely necessitated, is the expression of something that is free from necessitation.
From Schopenhauer by Thomas Whittaker
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
It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
Necessity -- N. involuntariness; instinct, blind impulse; inborn proclivity, innate proclivity; native tendency, natural tendency; natural impulse, predetermination. necessity, necessitation; obligation; compulsion &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
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
