necessitarianism

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There is, we must confess, a good deal of such sophistry to-day in the use of arguments drawn from the current philosophy of necessitarianism and the idea of heredity.

From St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. I A Practical Exposition by Gore, Charles

It is opposed to the various doctrines of Free-Will, known as voluntarism, libertarianism, indeterminism, and is from the ethical standpoint more or less akin to necessitarianism and fatalism.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various

But then the Daily News suddenly lights up the gloom of necessitarianism with bright beams of hope.

From Culture and Anarchy by Arnold, Matthew

Abelard's necessitarianism and Gilbert's Spinozism, if Bernard understood them right, were equally impossible theology, and the Church could by no evasion escape the necessity of condemning both.

From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry

For here comes in our faith in the staunch mechanical pursuit of a fixed object, and covers itself with that imposing and colossal necessitarianism of The Times which we have before noticed.

From Culture and Anarchy by Arnold, Matthew