Hypertext Webster Gateway: "necessitarianism"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Necessitarianism \Ne*ces`si*ta"ri*an*ism\, n.
The doctrine of philosophical necessity; the doctrine that
results follow by invariable sequence from causes, and esp.
that the will is not free, but that human actions and choices
result inevitably from motives; deteminism. --M. Arnold.
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