necessitation
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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
If now the maxims of rational beings are not by their own nature coincident with this objective principle, then the necessity of acting on it is called practical necessitation, i.e., duty.
From Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott
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
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
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
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